The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship has set off the next round of immigration politics: not just who gets citizenship after birth, but who should be allowed into the country before birth. Specifically, some have begun floating tighter restrictions on pregnant foreign visitors entering the United States. The issue is “birth tourism,” meaning foreign…
Birthright Citizenship Survives, and the Justices Bring the Receipts
The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling is one of those cases where constitutional text, history, immigration policy, presidential power, and judicial philosophy all collide in one very crowded legal hallway. The Court affirmed the lower court’s judgment against President Trump’s executive order, which sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to…
Supreme Court, Girls’ Sports, and the Question Nobody Can Dodge
The Supreme Court has now upheld state laws from West Virginia and Idaho barring transgender girls and women from competing on school athletic teams designated for girls and women. The Court’s conservative majority ruled that the laws don’t violate the Constitution, while all nine justices agreed that Title IX doesn’t require schools to allow transgender…
The “Anti-Weaponization” Fund: Good Principle, Terrible Packaging
The Justice Department’s proposed “anti-weaponization” fund is one of those ideas that sounds righteous in theory but politically combustible in practice. The basic claim behind it isn’t hard to understand: if federal agencies used government power to punish people for their politics, beliefs, speech, associations, or religious convictions, those people deserve more than a polite…
Birthright Citizenship: Constitutional Bedrock or Policy Loophole?
The latest legal battle over birthright citizenship—sparked by efforts tied to Trump and now before the Supreme Court—has reignited one of those debates that manages to feel both incredibly straightforward and maddeningly complex at the same time. At first glance, the issue seems almost too simple to argue about. The Fourteenth Amendment says what it…
The Supreme Court Weighs in on California’s School Secrecy Fight
The latest showdown between parental rights and student privacy has officially made its way to the marble steps of the Supreme Court. The Court’s temporary decision to block California’s restrictions on parental notification has national implications. It signals where at least six justices appear inclined to land when this case is fully litigated. At the…
The Grijalva Mess Is a Bad Look for Washington
The State of Arizona has done something extraordinary, and not in a good way. It has sued the United States House of Representatives. The reason? Because the House, under Speaker Mike Johnson, still hasn’t sworn in Adelita Grijalva, the Democrat who won September’s special election to fill the late Raúl Grijalva’s seat. Her election is…
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