JONATHAN TURLEY: Birthright citizenship ruling leaves conservatives with only one path

Is birthright citizenship ruling the GOP’s new Roe v. Wade?

Is birthright citizenship ruling the GOP’s new Roe v. Wade?

Rep Grothman seeks vote to restrict birthright citizenship as Trump weighs appeal

Pushing back against the recent Supreme Court ruling that protected birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, House Republicans are renewing a legislative push to restrict birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants in order to force the issue back before the high court. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., a House subcommittee chairman long influential on immigration []...Click to read more

Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship

Roberts Opinion, joined by Barrett and the liberal block, fully embraces birthright citizenship for all. Children born to women illegally or temporarily in the country are citizens at birth. The post Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

"America Is a Multiracial Democracy": Supreme Court Denies Trump's Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land.' We keep that promise today.” So concludes the decision of the Supreme Court in the landmark case Trump v. Barbara, affirming the constitutional right to birthright citizenship and rejecting President Trump’s attempt to end it. Trump’s executive order had aimed to prevent babies born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents from automatically becoming American citizens. We speak to Columbia University historian of immigration Mae Ngai about the case and the white nationalist logic behind Trump’s challenge.

Birthright Citizenship vs. 'We the People'

The Supreme Court has finally weighed in on birthright citizenship, and to the frustration of conservatives across the nation, they got it wrong. Simply saying that today is enough to invite endless ridicule from those who insist the Constitution plainly and unambiguously grants citizenship to anyone born on American soil. There is little interest in engaging with the intended purpose of the 14th Amendment, its historical context, or whether that interpretation serves the long-term interests of the nation. Yet the same people who demand a strictly literal reading of the 14th Amendment rarely apply that standard consistently to the rest of the Constitution.