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The Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling Tuesday rejected President Trump’s attempt to abolish birthright citizenship — a right that’s enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Trump signed ...

The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

It is easy to forget just how terrible the Dred Scott decision was.

The text of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment declares: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State ...

That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, that President Donald Trump is seeking to redefine as part of his campaign to overturn the ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. These days, everyone wants to be an originalist. But in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright-citizenship case at the Supreme Court ...

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