Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...
As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...
John Bingham, a 19th century member of Congress from Cadiz, wrote the constitutional provision debated by Supreme Court ...
While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating ...
The Fourteenth Amendment is back before the U.S. Supreme Court in a way that presents an issue of extraordinary importance. Yet what’s before the court in Trump v. Barbara isn’t one of the clauses ...
Even some of the justices named by Trump during his first term don’t seem to be buying it.
Barbara, a class-action lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order ending the practice of birthright citizenship. The two are connected, because Trump v. Barbara involves issues fundamental ...
A law professor at Florida International University writes that, even from an originalist perspective, birthright citizenship ...
Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to “end birthright citizenship” for children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents.
The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...