Showing posts with label 14th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 14th Amendment. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

SCOTUS Upholds Birthright Citizenship

›
A number of posts have discussed birthright citizenship .  Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog : The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Do...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Ninth Circuit and Birthright Ciltizenship

›
A  number  of  posts  have  discussed  birthright citizenship . Mattathias Schwartz at NYT : A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Birthright Citizenship, Period.

›
A number of posts have discussed birthright citizenship . John Yoo at AEI: We are all familiar with the first sentence of the 14th Amendme...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Constitution, BIrthright Citizenship, and the Oath of Office

›
Many   posts  have  discussed   oaths of office . Yesterday, Trump swore to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the Unit...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

BIrthright Citizenship

›
Allan Smith at NBC: On birthright citizenship, Trump said he would seek to repeal it via executive action — which would be certain to spark ...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Original Meaning of the Disqualification Clause

›
Steven Portnoy at ABC : In 2024, the originalists on the Supreme Court will likely seek to determine whether the ratifiers could have had it...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

J6 Was an Insurrection

›
 The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that, under section 3 of the 14th Amendment , Trump is ineligible to be on the Colorado presidential prim...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Presidential Oath and Supporting the Constitution

›
Asha Rangappa : You often think that you have heard it all from Trump, or his lawyers, and then you realize you actually haven’t. A lawsuit...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Section Three

›
    Adam Liptak at NYT : Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Disqualifying an Insurrectionist

›
 From CREW: A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Secession, Rebellion, and the Disqualification Clause

›
 Section 3 of the  14th Amendment: No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, o...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Citizenship and American Samoa

›
Many posts have discussed the legal status of citizenship . Michael Levenson at NYT: Since 1900, American Samoans have pledged allegia...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Redistricting Does Not Have to Rest on Eligible Voters

›
Adam Liptak reports at The New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that states may count all residents, whether or ...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Births to Undocumented Parents

›
Pew reports: About 295,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in 2013, making up 8% of the 3.9 million U.S. births that y...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Birthright Citizenship

›
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jur...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Supreme Court on Same-Sex Marriage

›
From Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges : No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highe...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Coulter, Reagan, and Asian Pacific Americans

›
Mediaite reports that Ann Coulter attacked Nikki Haley: Ann Coulter appeared with Kennedy on Fox Business Network tonight and said that t...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The National Guard, Armed Forces, and Civil Disorder

›
Events in Ferguson raise the question of the role of the armed force in domestic unrest.  From  Charles Doyle and Jennifer Elsea, "The ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Citizenship and the Boston Bombing

›
Our chapter on citizenship discusses denaturalization , the process by which naturalized citizens may lose their status under certain limi...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

The President, Targeting Killing, and the Constitution

›
Previous posts have discussed the federal government's efforts to kill specific terrorists , including American citizens .  CNN reports...