The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and uphold President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of temporary and undocumented ...

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone ...

On Sept. 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 split, lifted a lower court’s restraining order that had prohibited immigration authorities in Los Angeles from stopping or detaining people based ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

Last week, the Duke Law Federalist Society hosted an event with the provocative title: “Born Here, Belong Here? A Constitutional Conversation on Citizenship by Birth” where the underpinnings of the ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

A president ignoring a court order would, according to conventional wisdom, trigger a constitutional crisis. Yet, for all this rhetoric of warning, President Donald Trump has never come close to ...

Get clear, smart takes on every major ruling. Subscribe to support Slate’s legal coverage. On Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying ...

The court granted Trump a win in its 6-3 ruling, which limited lower courts' power to universally block the president's executive order Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...