Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th ...

In a new paper, I examine, along with a co-author (James Heilpern), whether "subject to the jurisdiction" would have had a familiar legal meaning to lawyers in the mid-nineteenth century, and if so ...

While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating ...

The Birthright Clause did not invent a new idea: it constitutionalized an old one.