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

The Trump administration has lost approximately 60% of the court rulings against it since Inauguration Day and won 30%—while ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices exerted waning influence during its recently concluded term, and their ...

Here’s what to know about the history of—and the Trump Administration’s efforts to ramp up—“denaturalization.” ...

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.

Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, he has voiced his desire to end Birthright Citizenship and signed an executive order to do just ...

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 ...

A new Yahoo/YouGov survey finds the Supreme Court defied public opinion by paving the way for states to revoke the ...

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

In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizensh ...

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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