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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 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 ...

Trump says Justices Barrett, Gorsuch ‘sicken me’ after Supreme Court tariff ruling

The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, said President Trump did not have authority under the International Emergency Economic ...

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 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 ...

The Supreme Court Just Heeded One of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Sharpest Dissents

With no noted dissents, the justices refused to let the Trump administration immediately revoke Temporary Protected Status ...

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 ...