Divided Supreme Court weighs the right to seek asylum at the southern border

The case posed a clash between the government's need to manage surges at the border and the moral and historical obligation ...

Supreme Court justices will consider the future of birthright citizenship. Here’s how their families came to America

The nine are about to take up a historic dispute that goes to the core of American identity. From their personal vantage ...
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The Case That Could Upend Who Gets to Be an American Is Back at the Supreme Court

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

Supreme Court debates what ‘arrives in’ the US means as it scrutinizes former asylum seeker policy

The Supreme Court spent more than an hour Tuesday debating what “arrives in” the US means, with justices on both sides of the ...

Supreme Court questions what it means to be ‘in’ the U.S.

A fight at the Supreme Court over the government’s power to block asylum seekers from reaching ports along the Mexican border ...

Supreme Court seems skeptical of allowing states to accept late-arriving mail ballots

The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems skeptical of state laws allowing late-arriving mail ballots to be counted, an ...