Gabriel "Jack" Chin (University of California, Davis - School of Law) & Paul Finkelman (Gratz College; Albany Law School) have posted Birthright Citizenship, Slave Trade Legislation, and the Origins ...

And Democrats have happily obliged. “If you’re a textualist or an originalist, it’s clear the constitution guarantees birthright citizenship so this is blatantly illegal,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) ...

Justice Samuel Alito wanted to know. It would have been a strange thing for him to ask, had he not posed the question at Wednesday’s hearing over a Texas law requiring age verification to access ...

Thumbs down: Perhaps Abbott also knows it’s easier to lure displaced California millionaires over to Texas with honey rather than vinegar. Especially when Texas is losing its mojo according to a ...

The Supreme Court majority declined to take up the case without explanation, but Alito disagreed, writing as the sole dissenter for the court. Alito, a George W. Bush appointee, blasted the video ...

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito became the talk of the internet after asking about how PornHub compared to Playboy magazine during a court hearing on Wednesday.

Then, Justice Samuel Alito made the curious decision to take a call from the president-elect as Donald Trump’s emergency appeal was barreling toward the court. As has been well-reported ...

Then, Justice Samuel Alito made the curious decision to take a call from the president-elect as Donald Trump’s emergency appeal was barreling toward the court. As has been well-reported, there is a ...

During arguments for a case over a Texas law requiring age verification for pornographic websites, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asked the lawyer for the adult industry whether Pornhub ...

The Supreme Court spent Wednesday talking dirty—in the least sexy sense possible. The nation’s highest court heard arguments about whether Texas is violating the US Constitution’s First ...

The justice then inquired, in what the New York Times described as a “mocking tone,” whether Pornhub was “like the old Playboy magazine.” He asked, “You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito turned heads during a First Amendment case on Wednesday when he asked an absurd, and unexpected, question of the case's lawyer. The conservative Supreme Court ...