14th Amendment
Justice Barrett, Slavery, and Birthright Citizenship
Justice Amy Coney Barrett (Eric Lee/Pool via CNP/Polaris/Newscom) I have previously written about how all of the Trump Administration's rationales for denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented…
Slavery, Birthright Citizenship, and Today’s Upcoming Supreme Court Oral Argument
Josiah Wedgewood's famous 1787 image created for the antislavery movement. (NA) Much ink has been spilled over the issues at stake in today's upcoming Supreme Court oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright…
A jury approves damages after 2 Texas cops snatched a supposedly ‘abandoned’ girl from her home
More than seven years after two Texas cops snatched a teenaged girl they erroneously claimed had been "abandoned," a federal jury has concluded that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights by unreasonably…
My New Lawfare Article on “Slavery and Birthright Citizenship”
Josiah Wedgewood's famous 1787 image created for the antislavery movement. Today, Lawfare published my article "Slavery and Birthright Citizenship." Here is an excerpt: Trump v. Barbara, the birthright…
‘Birthright citizenship’ is illegitimate and unconstitutional: here’s why
Tue Mar 10, 2026 - 4:22 pm EDT Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of an essay on birthright citizenship. Click here to read Part 1. (LifeSiteNews) — Most Americans are completely ignorant about the highly vaunted federal…
Trump, not the USCCB, is on the right track about birthright citizenship
Thu Mar 5, 2026 - 1:35 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Let’s begin with the most important aspect of this essay for Catholics: the USCCB is utterly outside of its domain in providing commentary regarding the issue of birthright…
Slavery and Birthright Citizenship
Milla74/Dreamstime Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, is currently before the Supreme Court, and there is a vast array of amicus briefs, as well as the briefs of the parties. But one key issue has not gotten…
Trump says justices catered to ‘radical left’ by ruling against his tariffs
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump described the Supreme Court's rejection of his "emergency" tariffs as a "very unfortunate ruling." That was mild compared to…
Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined (from an Originalist Perspective)
Noted originalist scholar Michael Ramsey has a potentially important new paper on birthright citizenship: "Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined," forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review. This article is something of…
Iowa officials arrested this guy for criticizing them—twice. A federal judge says they are liable.
As Noah Petersen saw it, he was exercising his freedom of speech when he criticized the Newton, Iowa, police department during the public comment period at a city council meeting. But according to Mayor Michael Hansen and…
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