On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the highest-profile cases of the 2025-26 term – and indeed, ...

Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic ...

The president finds the long-settled meaning of the citizenship clause to be an intolerable obstacle to his agenda. The ...

The president must confront a 1952 federal law, the possibility that millions will lose their citizenships, stateless ...

In a brief to the Supreme Court, the administration argues that the amendment—ratified in 1868 in repudiation of the Dred ...

The bid to limit birthright citizenship could be a can of worms as the justices are confronted with an academic battle over ...

On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Trump v. Barbara, in which the nature of birthright citizenship ...

President Trump has targeted immigrants since his first day in office, and his efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship ...

The ACLU is defending the 14th Amendment before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, challenging an executive order that ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.

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 ...