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fromBrooklyn Eagle
3 weeks agoPREMIUM The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains
There would be considerable historical irony if the court decides to use the 14th Amendment to provide the legal cover for reversing a generation of Black political progress in the South. Initially designed to enshrine federal civil rights protections for freed people facing a battery of discriminatory " Black Codes" in the postbellum South, the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause has been the foundation of the nation's modern rights-based legal order, ensuring that all U.S. citizens are treated fairly.
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fromEmptywheel
4 weeks agoThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama "Using the 14th"
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
#birthright-citizenship
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months agoSupreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
The Supreme Court will rule on whether President Trump's order denies birthright citizenship to children born to undocumented or temporary residents, challenging the 14th Amendment.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 months agoSupreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
The Supreme Court will decide whether an executive order strips birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents present illegally or temporarily.
fromSlate Magazine
7 months agoA Brief History Lesson on Birthright Citizenship for the Supreme Court's Originalists
The order denying citizenship to children of immigrants is based on inaccurate interpretations of the 14th Amendment and immigration history in the U.S. Challenges to that order are ongoing.
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