Alarmingly, only five members of the nine-person U.S. Supreme Court found the U.S. president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship unconstitutional. This is a slender thread, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Marjorie Cohn previews some of the cases the U.S. high court will use to establish the limits of executive power.
Justices stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the U.S. when the president breaks the law, writes Marjorie Cohn.
If the definition of citizenship is changed by executive order, there is nothing to prevent Trump or any other president from defining citizenship anyway they choose, writes Margaret Kimberley.