The fight around birthright citizenship was at the Supreme Court, where justices on Wednesday heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case around the Trump administration’s blatantly un-American effort to terminate this constitutional right – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – through an executive order. Inside...
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This is a guest post by David Leopold, America’s Voice Legal Advisor and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The debate over birthright citizenship is no longer a theoretical exercise confined to campaign trail rhetoric. What was once a fringe proposal championed by restrictionists in Congress has...
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From defending birthright citizenship in the courts to condemning ICE’s warehouse scheme, U.S. Catholic bishops have made clear they’re siding with immigrant communities U.S. Catholic bishops continue to speak out forcefully in defense of the dignity and rights of immigrants and their families in recent weeks, including reaffirming support...
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Hundreds rallied outside the Supreme Court this week, where the Trump administration demanded that justices nullify the kinds of the lower court orders that have blocked its unconstitutional and outrageous effort to terminate birthright citizenship – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – via executive order. Outside...
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A long-serving federal judge in Seattle, Washington has issued a nationwide ruling temporarily blocking Donald Trump’s attack on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, calling the executive order seeking to gut 150 years of settled law “blatantly unconstitutional,” The Seattle Times reports. In his ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge...
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For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise. Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory. Just as...
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Donald Trump’s day one avalanche of promised executive orders were more about advancing disorder, nativist divisions, and scapegoating immigrants than about lowering the costs of groceries, childcare, and housing for working families. As noted in a Bluesky thread earlier this week: The sum total of the coming day-one Executive...
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