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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/2/2023
Why We are Still Debating Birthright Citizenship
by Martha S. Jones
Opposition to birthright citizenship has, historically and today, reflected opposition to the idea of equal membership in the political community of the nation and has been inextricable from the idea that white Americans should be privileged citizens, argues the leading historian of the subject.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
10/4/2022
Justice Jackson's Questioning in Voting Rights Case Shows History Won't be Left to Court's Right Wing
The new Associate Justice pushed back against the idea that the writers of the 14th Amendment intended for it to ensure "color-blind" treatment of voters rather than an affirmative defense of racially inclusive political participation.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/14/2022
Does Disqualifying a January 6 Participant from Office Threaten Democracy?
Disqualifying particular candidates does nothing to fight the broad-based embrace of election denialism and authoritarianism, and it further deprives voters of the right to repudiate those things at the polls, say three law professors.
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SOURCE: Slate
1/11/2022
Is the Challenge to Madison Cawthorn's Re-Election Eligibility For Real?
The text and historical application of the 14th Amendment means that the courts could bar the North Carolina MAGA Congressman from seeking reelection because of his endorsement of the January 6 attack on the Capitol which sought to overturn Joe Biden's election.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11-12-18
What Happened When a Nation Erased Birthright Citizenship
by Jonathan M. Katz
The Dominican Republic deported an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 people of Haitian descent over three years. Those left behind live in a state of institutionalized terror.
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SOURCE: Vanity Fair
10-30-18
The Intellectual Origins of Trump’s Chilling Immigration Plan
It can be traced to a paper that came out of the right-wing Claremont Institute in the 1990s.
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SOURCE: History channel
10-30-18
Why the United States Has Birthright Citizenship
America didn’t always extend citizenship to those born within its borders.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-31-18
Donald Trump’s Unconstitutional Dreams
by Eric Foner
The president has birthright citizenship all wrong.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
10-30-18
Trump eyeing executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution
An executive order would be certain to spark a constitutional debate about the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10-30-18
The Citizenship Clause Means What It Says
by Garrett Epps
The authors of the Fourteenth Amendment were clear that the United States is one nation, with one class of citizens, and that citizenship extends to everyone born here.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9-17-13
The Father of the 14th Amendment
by Gerard N. Magliocca
In September 1863, John Bingham was at the lowest point of his career. But soon he would become the father of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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SOURCE: WRAL
4-2-13
State religion in NC?
Raleigh, N.C. — A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide.The bill grew out of a federal lawsuit filed last month by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Rowan County Board of Commissioners. In the lawsuit, the ACLU says the board has opened 97 percent of its meetings since 2007 with explicitly Christian prayers.Overtly Christian prayers at government meetings are not rare in North Carolina. Since the Republican takeover in 2011, the state Senate chaplain has offered an explicitly Christian invocation virtually every day of session, despite the fact that some senators are not Christian....