How Originalism Keeps the Constitution Alive

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump’s birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

Biden says 'we're the United States of Amerigotit' in latest gaffe at DC conference

Former President Joe Biden made a gaffe in saying "United States of Amerigotit" during an LGBTQ+ conference speech in which ...

The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In

The court’s conservative majority said that Texas’ asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps ...

Air raid on Pearl Harbor; Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution: Today in history, Dec. 7

On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The United States declared war against Japan the following ...

The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job

In early November, a conservative Supreme Court justice showed a cleareyed understanding of the threat that President Trump ...

What longstanding legal precedent says about birthright citizenship and the process to restrict it: Analysis

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the ...

Supreme Court to decide if Trump can limit the constitutional right to citizenship at birth

The Trump administration is seeking to roll back the historical understanding that birthright citizenship extends to almost ...

Trump is trying to end birthright citizenship status in the US. Is that constitutional?

The US Supreme Court said on Friday that it would hear President Donald Trump’s expedited appeal to see if he can end ...