The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.

If any political party in this country’s history were to have proposed the position the [Trump administration] now advocates ...

Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." is featured in an ACLU video as the Supreme Court is set to weigh in on Trump's ...

A question that has shadowed Guam and other U.S. territories for more than a century is about to get its closest look yet ...

The ACLU is defending the 14th Amendment before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, challenging an executive order that ...

Obtaining German citizenship by birth lowers crime among adolescents with an immigration background. That’s according to a recent study by the University of Passau and the ifo Institute and on the ...

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

Citizens United v. FEC, a major case on political spending, was argued for the first time on this day in 2009. After ...

Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic ...

The Supreme Court weighed a policy that would allow agents at U.S. borders to block migrants from entering the country to ...

Has Donald Trump finally figured out that Stephen Miller’s fascist cruelties have become a niggling political liability for him? Well, maybe. A striking report in The Wall Street Journal suggests ...