Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th ...

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 ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme ...

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

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case arising from Trump's 2025 executive ...

Supreme Court justices had pointed questions for both sides during oral arguments on President Donald Trump's birthright ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Trump’s executive order that would end birthright citizenship, a case that could reshape ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born ...

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to end automatic ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment ...