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Fourteenth Amendment
November 20, 2024
Matt Ford
Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court
The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.
October 23, 2024
Matt Ford
I Don’t Trust the Supreme Court With the 2024 Election
During his presidency, the high court’s conservatives proved to be resistant to the idea that Donald Trump was their legal client. This year, that all changed.
March 18, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Supreme Court Upholds Insurrection Ban on Official Who’s Not Trump
A January 6 rioter can be barred from office, according to the Supreme Court. Trump, on the other hand ...
March 11, 2024
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Rekindled the January 6 Crisis
The high court’s disqualification ruling has left the guardrails of democracy in worse condition than they were in before.
March 9, 2024
Jason Linkins
The Supreme Court’s Savage Indictment of the Republican Party
If you read the high court’s disqualification ruling closely, you’ll see that the justices unanimously agree that the GOP is a lawless institution.
March 6, 2024
Matt Ford
Everybody Hates the Supreme Court’s Disqualification Ruling
Trump and his diehards aside, many of those who wanted the court to leave the former president on the ballot still think the justices managed to screw it up.
March 6, 2024
Jess Coleman
The Naïve Pundits Enabling the Supreme Court’s Big Con
The widely held belief that the high court occupies a special place in the Constitutional firmanent is out of joint with that body’s increasingly ignominious decisions.
March 4, 2024
Tori Otten
Supreme Court: Trump Can Stay on Colorado Ballot, Forget the 14th Amendment
In a doozy ruling, the Supreme Court has decided that Colorado can’t kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
February 6, 2024
Matt Ford
The Trump Disqualification Case Is the Supreme Court’s Most Consequential Moment
The most pivotal matter before the high court has attracted a flurry of interest from all quarters, all jostling to help the justices decide whether the former president can stand for reelection.
December 29, 2023
Tori Otten
Maine Adds Pain to Trump’s Presidential Ballot Woes
The Pine Tree State joins Colorado in disqualifying the former president from seeking office—a decision that will likely force the Supreme Court to settle the matter.
May 30, 2023
Tori Otten
Trump Vows to End Birthright Citizenship on “Day One” if He Wins
Undoing the Fourteenth Amendment is not a joke.
April 21, 2022
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Patrick Caldwell
A Forgotten Section of the Constitution Could Help Democrats Save Voting Rights
The 14th Amendment requires Congress to punish states that restrict the right to vote. Will Democrats finally revive it?
September 19, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the End of the One Great Woman Myth
The meme-ification of the justice was just one part of the brand-driven, girl-bossed, leaned-in conception of women’s freedom in which it incubated.
October 31, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump has a shoddy grasp of the Constitution.
October 31, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump’s Closing Argument to Voters: Fascism
The president insists that he, not the Constitution, determines who is an American.
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