Judges & Justices

The references—of filth, disease, and primitiveness—are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes.

After today, a Secretary can announce to the world that she didn’t consult with anyone—more, that she didn’t evaluate country conditions at all—before making, extending, or terminating a TPS designation.

This alternative account pitches Black Americans against immigrants when the advocates who promoted the 14th Amendment did no such thing.

Suppose the child never visited the United States while growing up and was inculcated with hatred of this country.

The Court's interpretation is not only contrary to the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, it produces grotesque results.

The Court’s conception of a color-blind Constitution and the Government’s (and principal dissent’s) cramped, group-specific reading of the Citizenship Clause are two sides of the same coin, stemming from a basic misunderstanding of the…

Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas, now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott’ — but that…

We break no new ground today.

Allowing a biological male athlete to compete on a girls' team necessarily displaces or disadvantages a female athlete—replacing her on the roster, knocking her out of the starting lineup, reducing her playing time, depriving her of a…

The question before the Court is: Under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, may schools maintain women's and girls' sports for biological females?

To provide equal opportunity for female athletes, schools do not merely maintain, for example, one soccer team, one basketball team, one ice hockey team, and one lacrosse team that are equally open to female and male athletes.

I am not sure that today’s opinion will stand the test of time.

Their bottom line is that, for certain people, being born on American soil will not suffice to confer citizenship.

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

We keep that promise today.

The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.

Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community.

Blacks were entitled to citizenship because they were Americans.

The Court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights … the Court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.

We are, as we have said many times before, ‘a court of review, not of first view.’

An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone’s location, and police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information — even though for only a limited time, and…

I cannot support this irresponsible escapade.

The police conducted a search when they gained access to Location History data.

Hawaii chose to protect the unaware property owner while leaving open to gun owners the opportunity to carry firearms where consent has been provided.