If original intent means anything when understanding the Constitution, it pays to listen to what the folks in the Senate said when debating the 14th Amendment and its clause establishing ...

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The Trump administration has taken the president's battle against birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants.to the Supreme Court.

Instead, he set forth a detailed analysis of the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause, and concluded that it protects the same individual right that is ...

Nor could it reflect the “original public meaning” of the 14th Amendment, when it was ratified in 1868, as claimed by Barnett and Wurman. The first significant federal immigration law was not ...

arguing that it is entirely constitutional and well within the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and in line with previous rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. The 14th Amendment was passed in ...

But does the 14th Amendment speak to abortion at all? Adler says no. No justice has ever held it does, “and no justice who considers himself or herself bound by the original public meaning of ...

As with the regulatory takings doctrine, it is possible that the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates a public use requirement against the states even if the Fifth Amendment ...

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that the 14th Amendment right to American citizenship never had anything to do with modern-day “gate-crashers”. Trump insisted that it had ...

From the August 21, 2023, edition of Salem Media Group's The Charlie Kirk Show, as broadcast on Real America's Voice CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): The 14th Amendment was necessary for some things ...