#birthright-citizenship

#birthright-citizenship

Historians think a lot about contingency-the way specific events are connected in a causal chain. Nothing is foreordained; a single change can mean a different outcome, or a cascade of them, that shifts the course of history.

This is one of the biggest issues for American society... It's not just about what the executive order does, but it's about the power that the president has to rewrite the Constitution.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. It's still somewhat unbelievable that the high court will entertain arguments in favor of gutting an utterly clear constitutional commitment. Nonetheless, our motto on Amicus is "legal knowledge is power," and in this case, historical understanding of legal knowledge is power.

After Coughenour ruled Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship to be blatantly unconstitutional, the judge said the threats started pouring in. Coughenour told a story about being confronted by five sheriff's deputies with long rifles who were called to his home on a tip he had murdered his wife. It was a cruel hoax, Whitaker said, adding that the next day, Coughenour received a bomb threat.

The conference's opposition to stripping folks of birthright citizenship "is motivated by their firmly held belief that each person is endowed by God with an inherent dignity that confers certain universal, inviolable, and inalienable rights."

Justice Department Struggles Under Weight of Immigration Crackdown; Current and former prosecutors say they can relate to the government lawyer who told judge she was overwhelmed": Sadie Gurman and Hannah Critchfield of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

As the Supreme Court has finally moved toward looking at the merits of President Donald Trump's attempts to end birthright citizenship, the famous Wong Kim Ark case of 1868 has loomed particularly large. While that precedent certainly bolsters the case for striking down Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, there is an often-ignored series of cases from much more recently that speak even more directly to the issues in this case.

Discussions of race are everywhere and nowhere in 2025. On one hand, President Donald Trump is openly insulting Somali immigrants, describing entire nations as "shithole" countries, and insisting that the most persecuted class of humans are white South Africans. On the other, none of this is actually registering as anything other than Trump being Trump, and so when the Supreme Court agrees to revisit a foundational doctrine like birthright citizenship, too many of us shrug it off.