A law professor at Florida International University writes that, even from an originalist perspective, birthright citizenship ...

The Fourteenth Amendment is back before the U.S. Supreme Court in a way that presents an issue of extraordinary importance. Yet what’s before the court in Trump v. Barbara isn’t one of the clauses ...

In a new paper, I examine, along with a co-author (James Heilpern), whether "subject to the jurisdiction" would have had a familiar legal meaning to lawyers in the mid-nineteenth century, and if so ...

One was his first-day executive order claiming to eliminate birthright citizenship, a core constitutional principle enshrined ...

Are Island Brazilian neighbors citizens of the U.S. if they are born on U.S. soil, even if their parents do not have proper documentation? The Constitution’s 14th Amendment, now 158 years old, when ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to “end birthright citizenship” for children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents.

Much of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, whose birthright citizenship clause is at the center of a Trump ...

Today in Ohio podcast uses Trump's attack on the 14th Amendment to spotlight forgotten Ohio statesman John Bingham and ask: ...

While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating ...

The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to people assigned female at birth. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...