The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...
Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born ...
In a brief to the Supreme Court, the administration argues that the amendment—ratified in 1868 in repudiation of the Dred ...
On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the highest-profile cases of the 2025-26 term – and indeed, ...
Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment ...
Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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 ...
Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...