Good morning. I'm Paul Thornton, The Times' letters editor, and it is Saturday, Aug. 29. Times journalist Ruben Salazar) was killed in East Los Angeles 45 years ago today. Here's a look back at the week in Opinion.
If you ask Donald Trump, part of the U.S. Constitution is not constitutional. The Republican presidential front-runner (no, really), who once declared that birthright citizenship would probably not hold up in a court of law, wants to do away with a key protection of the 14th Amendment that immigration hard-liners regard as an unfair and unintended gift to immigrants who enter the country illegally and end up giving birth to U.