I'll try not to have a knee-jerk reaction to Sen. Lindsey Graham's call for a constitutional amendment to end the practice of deeming all who are born on this soil citizens, a practice that is as old as the republic. Earlier this week I praised him for his sensible comments about the crack cocaine versus powder cocaine sentencing disparity. The change in those laws didn't go far enough but is much better, in part because of the support of Sen. Graham.
His change on immigration is baffling, though. He is not up for re-election, so it can't be explained away in the same way folks are defending the changes Sen. John McCain has made this year. And he has long had one of the most sensible approaches to the vexing problem of illegal immigration.
I'll just ask this question: Can anyone make a strong case for amending our constitution in the way Sen. Graham is now proposing? Because I can't.
