Key takeaways from the historic Supreme Court debate on birthright citizenship

Ending birthright citizenship will mostly affect U.S. citizens

The Trump administration’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship is a serious challenge to the 14th Amendment, which enshrined a radical principle of our democratic experiment: that anyone born here is an American. But the order will most affect average Americans — whose own citizenship, until this point, has been presumed and assured — rather than the intended target, illegal immigrants. The irony is hiding in plain sight. Contrary to…

His Asian-American ancestor defined birthright citizenship. He fights to save it

Wong Kim Ark won a landmark 1898 Supreme Court ruling; his great-grandson Norman Wong joins battle against Donald Trump’s bid to unravel it.

Can Trump end birthright citizenship legally?

On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order redefining who gets to be an American.On Thursday, May 15, the Supreme Court heard arguments.

Birthright citizenship and a post-constitutional order

The recent case before the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship points to a more fundamental constitutional crisis that has been called “post-constitutionalism.” We have reached the era in which the imperatives of the administrative state have replaced the formalism of the Constitution.  The ideological liberals who advocated this radical change contend that the Constitution has been replaced by the administration with the deliberate purpose …

Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens

On the very day Donald Trump became president again, he signed an executive order prospectively eliminating birthright citizenship for children born to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Immediately, lawsuits were filed in a half-doze...

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