On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship, just over a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a previous order he made on the issue was unconstitutional. The new orders are narrower than that previous one, which was signed in the first week of his second term in office. Several legal experts have already opined that the new orders…
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After failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parents in U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, where the Supreme Court has said citizenship is granted by statute and full constitutional protections do not apply.
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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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A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. He is facing a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted. Hearn, who denies the accusations, says he had noticed a partly detached piece of the Reflecting Pool’s blue liner and reached into…
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On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented people born inside the United States. In a 6-3 decision, which included Trump-picked, right-wing justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the majority upheld that birthright citizenship was guaranteed under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th…
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In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday to preserve birthright citizenship rights outlined in the 14th Amendment, White House advisor Stephen Miller suggested that the Trump administration may consider barring pregnant tourists or immigrants from entering the U.S. at all. Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security to President Donald Trump, spoke to Fox News’s…
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