Earlier this week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) indicated that he and other Republican lawmakers were exploring ways to reinterpret the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause, following the Supreme Court ruling last month against President Donald Trump’s attempt to do so through executive order. In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday…
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After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine birthright citizenship through executive order on Tuesday, Trump demanded that Congress pass a law rescinding birthright citizenship rights instead. The birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads, in part, that: Trump’s executive order, issued on the first…
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The United States Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, finding that the executive order he issued on the first day of his second term in office, which sought to redefine birthright citizenship unilaterally, was improper and unlawful. In a 6-3 ruling in a case titled Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts…
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In a Truth Social post on Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump shared a transcript of a far right podcast that delved into racist viewpoints against nonwhite immigrants entering the United States. The podcast from host Michael Savage railed against immigrants from countries he deemed as undesirable, using those bigoted views to justify terminating the birthright citizenship clause of the…
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In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump demeaned the Supreme Court over the yet-to-be-argued case regarding the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause, while also blasting the court over its ruling that his global tariffs were unlawful. Trump predicted that, if the high court had found his tariffs unconstitutional, they would likely find his executive order seeking to…
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In a pocket of Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley,” Black residents bear the generational toll of “plantation country” becoming “pollution country.” Seven times as many people are expected to be diagnosed with cancer than the national average in these disproportionately Black communities. Now, a federal district court has given those residents something they almost never get: a chance to…
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