President Chester A. Arthur nominated Justice Samuel Blatchford to the court on this day in 1882. According to Justia, Blatchford was a “precocious talent” who “enrolled in Columbia College (now […] ...

Backing has come from such legal heavyweights as the Claremont and the America First Policy institutes and conservative ...

President Donald Trump demanded that Republican-led states redraw their congressional districts mid-decade because he expects ...

Who’s running for Florida’s 19th Congressional District after Byron Donalds? Here’s who leads in fundraising and where the ...

The Trump administration bid to revoke temporary protected status faced another negative ruling, as the legal war looks poised to reach the Supreme Court.

The appeal followed a scathing ruling from a federal district court in Washington, D.C., in February that blocked the ...

A Senate subcommittee hearing on President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict access to birthright citizenship examined arguments about what the 14th Amendment's language meant when originally ...

These days, everyone wants to be an originalist. But in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright-citizenship case at the Supreme Court, not everyone is doing originalism well. Alas, the Trump administration ...

A US Senate hearing has raised alarms over Chinese 'birth tourism,' where foreign nationals exploit US birthright citizenship ...

Following a U.S. Senate hearing this week on birthright citizenship, U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt R-Mo and Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, joined a Heritage Foundation ...

On this day in 1804, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Justice Samuel Chase, who had been accused of abusing his power by refusing to dismiss biased jurors and inappropriately limiting ...

Birthright citizenship, guaranteed by the 14th amendment and a cornerstone of American identity, upholds the principle that all people born in the U.S. are equal members of society, regardless of ...