Here is NBC News: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that as president, he would deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants. “The family unit will be deported,” said Ramaswamy when asked by NBC News if the deportations would include American-born...
I am guessing that Michael Luttig and Lawrence Tribe don’t agree on much about the law. But they do agree that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits Trump from running for public office, including the presidency. Lutting is a retired George W....
Earlier today, Ted Cruz invoked the election of the 1876 and the so-called “Compromise of 1877” as a model for dealing with supposed election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Watch: Let’s set the record straight on what actually happened...
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Franklin Graham is on the stump for Trump. This is from his Facebook page : In the last presidential election in 2016, I reminded people across the country that the election was not about...
I begin with a caveat. This post is not implying that all white evangelicals are or have been racist. Many white evangelicals have been anti-racist and have fought hard to curb systemic racism in American life. But, as I argued...
Over at The New Yorker, Isaac Chotiner interviews historian Eric Foner on the promise of Reconstruction. Foner, of course, remains the foremost historian of Reconstruction. I have taught his book Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 several times over the years. Foner’s current book,...
Here is Garrett Epps on Donald Trump’s latest nativist scheme: In an interview with Axios on HBO, Trump confirmed what had been suspected since last summer: He is planning an executive order that would try to change the meaning of the Constitution...
The Atlantic.com is running a digital symposium on the 150th anniversary of Reconstruction with particular focus on the history and legacy of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Here is a taste of Yale historian David’s Blight’s contribution on the 14th: Among...
It is really hard to argue that the United States is not an exceptional nation. It was the first nation born out of the Enlightenment. In the early 19th century it was probably the most democratic place in the world....
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868. Here it is: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...
George Marshall’s Marshall Plan Speech. Followed by The Federalist Papers and the Fourteenth Amendment. This is according to the 800 people who voted at the History News Network. (The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights were excluded from...
