Is the Birthright Citizenship Debate Frivolous?

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. The order directs federal agencies to stop granting or recognizing citizenship for children born to parents who were unlawfully or temporarily in the United States at the time of their birth, fulfilling one of the President’s campaign promises.

NationNeema EmamApril 7, 2025Birthright Citizenship, SCOTUS, US Supreme Court, Donald Trump, Neema EmamComment

“Because We Are Final”: Brown v. Board of Education and the Enforceability of Supreme Court Decisions

The late Justice Antonin Scalia, testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2011, recounted the experiences he had with high school, college, and law students interested in the law. “I ask them, what do you think is the reason that America is such a free country? What is it in our Constitution that makes us what we are?”

NationNeema EmamDecember 9, 2024Supreme Court, Brown v Board, Judiciary, Neema EmamComment