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For over two centuries, America’s system of checks and balances has curbed presidential overreach but Donald Trump’s ...

Andrew Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment, including birthright citizenship, but it passed despite him. In the late 1800s, President Grover Cleveland’s administration tried to challenge the rule ...

Lash, The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Part III: Andrew Johnson and the Constitutional Referendum of 1866, 101 Geo. L.J. 1275 (2013) Earl M. Maltz, Fourteenth Amendment Concepts ...

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship ...

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Stevens’ arguments were crucial in ensuring the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery ... By the end of 1865, President Andrew Johnson—whom Stevens called a “damned scoundrel ...

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.