One very busy weekend

One very busy weekend

On this day in 1953, Chief Justice Fred Vinson died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 63, seven years after he joined the Supreme Court.At the CourtOn Sunday, the Trump administration again appealed a dispute over President Donald Trump’s executive order on...
The century-old fight to test birthright citizenship

The century-old fight to test birthright citizenship

As SCOTUSblog readers are well aware, on June 30, a majority of justices struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Much of this decision relied on the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark , which (in the court’s...