“The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a notable book on legal interpretation. “Only the written word is the law,” ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions, ruling that his banner ...
The Supreme Court says citizenship can't depend on your parents' immigration status. So why are millions of American families ...
The Supreme Court handed a rare loss to President Trump Tuesday.
Ark of Triumph: Wong Kim Ark won his 1898 Supreme Court case when the justices ruled that the Chinese worker, born on U.S. soil, was an American under the 14th Amendment. Credit: Wikimedia Commons ...
MANY COUNTRIES assign citizenship primarily on the basis of blood. America—along with about 30 other countries—does so primarily by place of birth. Since 1868, when the 14th Amendment was ratified, ...
On Wednesday, April 1, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may be the most important case in decades. The court will now consider President Donald Trump’s executive order rejecting ...
Birthright citizenship narrowly prevailed at the Supreme Court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's opinion reads as a warning ...
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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Despite its glaring flaws, the Times opinion piece was the opening round in what ...