“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
A number of cities across the U.S. have declared themselves “sanctuary cities” and refuse to assist with federal immigration enforcement. A bill working its way through the California state assembly would effectively make it a “sanctuary...
In this post and a second one, I will consider originalist approaches to the constitutionality of the President’s ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven foreign nations. The first step (which I will address in this post) is to find a constitutional...
Opponents of birthright citizenship often cite fragments of the congressional debate over the Fourteen Amendment’s Citizenship Clause to argue that the amendment’s drafters intended to exclude the children of visiting foreigners. However, reliance on these fragments...