Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme ...

The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

The Birthright Clause did not invent a new idea: it constitutionalized an old one.

Trump is on a mission to eliminate birthright citizenship, a right long thought to be guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the ...

In an unprecedented scene at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, President Donald Trump sat in the audience while the nine justices considered his administration’s attempt to overturn the ...

Justice Samuel Alito noted that Scalia had illustrated how to apply textualism in the modern world.

Supreme Court justices had pointed questions for both sides during oral arguments on President Donald Trump's birthright ...

The president’s unprecedented presence during the Supreme Court’s oral argument didn’t dull the justices’ criticism of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump told Politico that it would be “devastating” if the Supreme Court struck down his executive order seeking ...

The Supreme Court will weigh the legality of Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship — a landmark case that could impact ...

President Donald Trump told Politico that it would be “devastating” if the Supreme Court struck down his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In a wide-ranging interview with ...