In last month’s decision limiting one judicial tool, universal injunctions, the court seemed to invite lower courts to use ...

In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and ...

A federal judge in New Hampshire says he will certify a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected by ...

Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s just 15 percent ...

Constitutional rights have to be enforceable. They can’t rely on the goodwill of the government. This utter lack of ...

UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK. He was detained aboard steamships for five months while his case moved through the courts. The ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of immigrants who are not permanent residents or citizens after the Supreme Court ...

Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...

As legal experts have explained, the text of the amendment itself disproves Trump’s claim, which the court’s conservatives — ...

John Jay’s observation in Federalist No. 2 that Americans are “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of ...

At the very least, they should act as a mirror to cause us to reflect on what our American citizenship really means, and what it asks of us. Sean J. Coletti is the mayor of Ammon.