Denaturalization Threat Revives Red Scare Echoes and Legal Showdowns
Justice Department directive broadens citizenship revocation amid narrowed judicial remedies and lack of legal counsel
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Month: June 2025
Policy by Injunction? A Legal Era Faces Its Reckoning
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. CASA that district courts typically lack the authority to issue nationwide injunctions…
Citizenship on Trial: The Long, Uneasy Life of the Fourteenth Amendment
From the Founders’ deliberate silence on enslaved people to Friday\'s Supreme Court ruling, America’s promise of birth-right citizenship has zigzagged through two centuries of conflict.
Correction – Trump's birthright citizenship order only applies to children born on or after 2/19/2025
In a recent piece, I incorrectly indicated that President Trump\’s executive order on birthright citizenship applied retroactively. In fact it applies only to children…
URGENT: Supreme Court Limits Judicial Authority Over Presidential Orders, as Trump Administration Challenges Core Principles of the Fourteenth Amendment
Decision restricting nationwide injunctions marks latest development in broader effort targeting birthright citizenship protections established after the Civil War.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Backs Parents in Opt-Out Fight Over LGBTQ+ Storybooks
6–3 ruling finds Montgomery County’s no-opt-out policy violates free-exercise rights; preliminary injunction ordered while case returns to lower courts
The Sound of Broken Trust: Abuse Allegations and the Newsboys Fallout
I’ve been a Newsboys fan for more than 30 years. I’ve attended their concerts, shared their music, and promoted their ministry because their songs…
Updated: Prisoner RLUIPA Claims Aim at Guards, but States Usually Pick Up the Tab
When Damon Landor arrived at Louisiana’s Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in July 2020, he brought two things that mattered to him: waist-length dreadlocks grown…
Adventist Church’s Employment Autonomy Arguments Advance in Challenge to Maryland Law
A lawsuit brought by the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists and Adventist Risk Management, Inc. against the State of Maryland will continue after a…
Supreme Court to Decide If Prison Guards Can Be Sued Personally for Alleged Religious Rights Violations
Landmark suit may reshape personal financial exposure for frontline prison staff in religious rights cases.