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The Insightful Immigration Blog
Trump’s Latest Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is Still Blatantly Unconstitutional
By Cyrus Mehta
Following defeat in the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara on constitutional grounds of a presidential order limiting birthright citizenship, President Trump signed two new executive orders on August 6,…
State AG Blog
Missouri AG Sues Kansas City Over Race- and Sex-Based Contracting Program
By Toni Michelle Jackson, Derick D. Dailey, Tiffany Aguiar
On July 22, 2026, Missouri Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway filed a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri challenging Kansas City’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise contracting program…
Simple Justice
After Barbara, Trump Signs More Birthright Citizenship EOs
Stephen Miller is nothing if not tenacious in his hatred of immigrants, his own ancestry notwithstanding. After the Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s birthright citizenship Executive Order, and given the…
JURIST
Trump signs new orders limiting birthright citizenship weeks after Supreme Court loss
By JURIST Staff
US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday directing federal agencies to withhold citizenship from certain children born on US soil, reviving a policy the Supreme Court rejected five…
Legal History Blog
Edwards on the Minority Rights First Amendment
By Dan Ernst
Jerry Edwards, West Virginia University College of Law, has posted The Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment:An incongruence exists in the literature on the nineteenth-century history of expressive freedom.…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Holds the Fourteenth Amendment Guarantees Birthright Citizenship
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Andrew T. VanEgmond, Monika Harris, Sadie Betting
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court held in Trump v. Barbara (No. 25-365) that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Strikes Down Concealed Carry Firearm Ban
By Tim Trunzo, Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Andrew T. VanEgmond, Sadie Betting
In Wolford v. Lopez (24-1046), the Supreme Court addressed whether a state may prohibit carrying firearms on others’ private property open to the public without the owners’ permission. In a…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, Rejecting Executive Order
By By: Nicole Fink, Philip K. Sholts
Quick Hits The Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment grants automatic citizenship to virtually all children born on United States soil (i.e., “birthright citizenship”). The ruling affirmed lower court…
Legal History Blog
Keener and Whittington on Birthright Citizenship
By Dan Ernst
Benjamin Keener, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and Keith E. Whittington, Yale Law School, have posted Demystifying Birthright Citizenship:Executive Order 14160 and the litigation it generated in Trump v. Barbara…
Legal History Blog
Upham's "Taking American Citizenship Seriously"
By Dan Ernst
David R. Upham, St. Thomas University College of Law, has published Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment (Bloomsbury)In this ambitious volume, Professor David R. Upham offers…