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...
View ArticleStates 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...
View ArticleScalia: 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...
View ArticleFight 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...
View ArticleArizona 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,...
View ArticleAriz. 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleDems' 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...
View ArticleDemocrats 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...
View ArticleBehold 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...
View ArticleGOP 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...
View ArticleSuit: 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...
View ArticleTrump 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...
View ArticleShould 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...
View ArticleDon'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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleColorado 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...
View ArticleInside 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....
View ArticleSupreme 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...
View ArticleMonumental 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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