NAILED IT: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Birthright Citizenship: “Justice Scalia had an example that dealt with this situation. He imagined an old theft statute that was enacted well before anybody conceived of a microwave oven, and then afterwards someone is charged with the crime of stealing a microwave oven, and this fellow says, 'Well, I can't be convicted under this because the microwave oven didn't exist at that time.' And he dismissed that…”

“There's a general rule there, and you apply it to future applications. And what we're dealing with here is something that was basically unknown at the time when the 14th Amendment was adopted, which is illegal immigration. So how do we deal with that situation when we have a general rule?”