If there’s one thing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson loves to do more than anything during Supreme Court oral arguments, it’s talk — and talk, and talk, and talk some more. On Thursday, The New York Times reported on a new study that found Jackson is “by far the most talkative justice” on the court over […]
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Politics The True Constitution Doesn’t Grant Universal Birthright Citizenship American legal conservatives are too enamored of abstractions. (Photo by Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images) At the recent oral argument in perhaps the most consequential case on the Supreme Court’s docket, the birthright citizenship case of Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts made a telling and illustrative quip. In an exchange with Solicitor General John Sauer concerning the problem of birth tourism, the chief justice responded to Sauer’s concern that 8 billion people around the planet are a “plane ride away from…Open
Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely foil for his criticism of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.