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Reid Once Tried to Roll Back Citizenship, Too

When Republicans started pushing to repeal or change the 14th amendment so that the children of illegal immigrants would not be citizens, Harry Reid said they’d “either taken leave of their senses or...

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States Take Up Fight Against 'Anchor Babies'

Starting this week, at least five states including Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Pennsylvania will begin to fight against granting automatic US citizenship to children born, in America, to illegal...

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Scalia: Constitution Doesn't Prohibit Sex Discrimination

The 14th Amendment's equal protection clause doesn't prohibit discrimination against women and gays, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. "Nobody ever thought that's what it meant. Nobody...

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Fight Brewing Over 'Anchor Baby' Citizenship

The biggest immigration battle of 2011 is likely to focus on how exactly an American is defined. A coalition of lawmakers from Arizona and about a dozen other states is fighting to deny citizenship to...

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Arizona Bills Target Birthright Citizenship

Arizona Republicans introduced four bills yesterday aimed at denying US citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. The lawmakers hope to provoke a Supreme Court review of the 14th Amendment,...

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Ariz. Bills Would Bar Illegals From Driving, Marriage

An Arizona Senate committee passed a new immigration bill yesterday that would prevent illegal immigrants from driving or buying a car, getting married, or sending their children to school. They also...

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In California Homes, Tourists Birthed American Babies

A "birth tourism" center uncovered by officials in Los Angeles County has given fresh ammunition to people calling for a change to the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to every baby...

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Dems' Possible Strategy: Declare Debt Ceiling Unconstitutional

In their fight to raise the debt ceiling, a move largely opposed by Tea Party Republicans, Democrats are considering a surprise weapon—the Constitution. With negotiations at an impasse and default...

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Democrats to Obama: Use the 14th Amendment

Desperate times: Some high-ranking Democrats say President Obama should invoke the 14th Amendment and raise the debt ceiling on his own. James Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, made the pitch...

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Behold US' Most Ridiculous Anti-Immigration Policy

Move over Arizona and Alabama, because Florida, the home of nearly a million Cuban refugees and their descendants, “has come up with perhaps the most bizarre and pointless anti-immigration policy of...

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GOP Rep Accused of White Nationalism After Tweet

GOP Rep. Steve King, who recently courted controversy by trying to keep Harriet Tubman off the $20 bill , found himself at the center of new outrage Sunday when he brought Twitter "to a screeching...

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Suit: I Sat in Waste During 18 Days in Prison Transport Van

It's bad enough to be detained for a crime you didn't commit; it's worse when that detention leads to nearly three weeks in the back of a van, deprived of a bathroom. The Washington Post reports a...

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Trump Gives His Read of the 14th Amendment on Twitter

Whether President Trump can end birthright citizenship with an executive order comes down to one's reading of the 14th Amendment. As NPR explains in a fact-check piece, a "small but vocal group of...

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Should We Relax on Gay Rights? 'Yes—and No'

Attached to the Supreme Court's majority opinion in overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday was a solo concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas that suggested he'd like to also reconsider cases...

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Don't Ignore the Suffering in America's Prisons

The Eighth and 14th Amendments are meant to prevent cruel and unusual punishment, as well as discrimination and unequal treatment—including for the incarcerated. But that's not what's being applied in...

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New Argument Asserts Trump Is Ineligible to Run

Former President Trump is miles and miles ahead of his Republican competitors. But if an upcoming law review article is correct, the former president shouldn't even be running in the first place. The...

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Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Disqualify Trump

The liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington—CREW—is trying to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 GOP primary ballot in Colorado. The group says it helped six Republican...

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Inside California Dems' Effort to Boot Trump From Ballot

Nine Democrats in California are seeking an expedited court ruling that could bar former President Donald Trump from the March 5 presidential primary ballot, claiming he's ineligible to resume office....

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Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Disqualify Trump

The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican candidate's long-shot bid to have a much better-known candidate disqualified. On the first day of its new term, the court declined to hear an appeal from...

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Monumental Ruling Puts Supreme Court in Hot Seat

The bombshell decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot in that state now shifts attention to the US Supreme Court, where an appeal is expected to...

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