Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

President Trump and religious groups emerged as some of the biggest winners from the Supreme Court this term. Losers included ...

Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, he has voiced his desire to end Birthright Citizenship and ...

A recent Supreme Court decision puts an expectant immigrant mother in South Carolina and her baby at risk in a way that's not ...

The term “American exceptionalism” gets bandied about a lot, often being confused with flag waving or braggadocio. Perhaps the best definition was provided by the late newspaper columnist Charles ...

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Casa, that federal courts lack the authority to ...

By a more than a two-to-one margin, Americans favor the long-standing practice of granting “birthright citizenship” to nearly all children born on U.S. soil regardless of their parents’ status, ...

A US federal judge on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he signed an executive order in January that barred all migrants at the US-Mexico border.

A newlywed Arlington woman spoke publicly for the first time Thursday after she was detained by ICE for five months while ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

Even if the mothers' immigration statuses were called into question and even if Trump was not married to them at the time of ...

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