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Much has been written about President Trump's executive order concerning birthright citizenship. I'll add a few thoughts here. First, this… The post The Birthright Citizenship Executive Order appeared first on Reason.com.

As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration and immigrants, one of the issues under scrutiny by his allies appears to be birthright citizenship – the declaration in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen,…

The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon be leaving the Capitol

Democrats wanted to see a broader purge of white supremacist statues, but said removing the former Supreme Court justice is a good start.

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply troubled nation. But not since the 19th century have there been other decisions so dreadfully indefensible and consequential.

Liberal-leaning justice says ‘there are days I get discouraged … sometimes I cry’ but urges leftwing lawyers to persevere

To Greenhouse, overruling Roe is an act of "judicial activism" and "raw power."

Politics is nothing new in the supposedly august Supreme Court — and it's often been the worst possible kind

In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown deeply politicized. But there never existed a golden age when the court was anything else.