When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the president's sweeping attempt to gut the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship -- it effectively placed one of the Constitution's most settled commitments on the docket.

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our closest-held notions of American freedom and equality.

TN Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a brief challenging birthright citizenship and attacking America's highest office: the citizen.