The language of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution could not be plainer when it comes to birthright citizenship. It says that if you were born or naturalized here, you’re a citizen. Period. End of story.There is no debate.And yet, there was.This is settled law. To pretend otherwise…
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When Rep. Tom Kean went missing from Congress for nearly four months, the speculation ran wild. Where was he? Was he hiding something? Was his marriage in trouble? Had he done something to be ashamed of?Reporters camped outside his New Jersey home. A colleague said he hadn’t heard from him. The myst…
Today, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s Day One executive order canceling the right to birthright citizenship. Good. That executive order declared that children born in the U.S. would not be considered citizens if their parents were living in the country illegally or were visiting the country o…
For one day, at least, the Constitution held, and in the chaotic and disjointed time we are living in, and where we hold our breath awaiting the rulings of an overtly bigoted Supreme Court, that is saying an awful lot.The court today struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to…
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
You can hear the whispering in the White House across the Mall from the Smithsonian Aviation Museum, “Well, that didn’t work, and that’s bad — really bad.” They’re talking about the “Great American State Fair.”Aaron Rupar, the Left’s irreplaceable and most deeply embedded intel agent, captured Fox N…
The failure of the American media is one of the biggest disappointments of the last 11 years. Instead of standing together and standing their ground with integrity and dignity when Trump began bullying them in 2015, media organizations let him wear them down with his never-ending litany of insults. …
Either I have firsthand evidence that the Republicans are barking up the wrong trees in their desperation to raise midterm funds, or I’m being trolled by them – or both.This started about a week ago when I received the strangest and most hilarious email from none other than JD Vance, who has been id…
The number one complaint I hear from liberals is that Democrats “aren’t doing anything” to push back against the illegitimate Trump regime. I understand why they might feel that way, but it also bugs me when people complain without offering solutions.We’ve needed a dedicated Democratic Press Secreta…
I will never forget reading New York Times book critic Dwight Garner’s 2002 review of Jared Kushner’s loathsome memoir, Breaking History, because if you cull it down and paraphrase it, it becomes a perfect description of Kushner the person.So I’ll attempt to use the magic of Garner’s wonderful words…