Ketanji Brown Jackson: “Our country will now consist of zone one, where individuals born in the country are granted birthright citizenship, and…”

The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful.

And, so, you have to then navigate all the sources that could make for an appearance of partiality, which you want to avoid.

You know, there are lots of limits on what judges can do, and I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our obligation is to be unbiased in our approach.

The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.