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After Contentious Rulings, 2 Supreme Court Justices to Appear Before Congressional Panel Next Week
After a highly eventful session of Supreme Court rulings, two justices will testify before Congress next week. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before the House Appropriations Committee July 14 about the budget for the Supreme Court. Barrett, nominated by President Donald Trump in 2020, is considered part of the conservative wing… -
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Atrocious Supreme Court Ruling Makes SAVE America Act Life or Death Choice for GOP
Unless Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., secretly works for the Democratic National Committee, he must bring the SAVE America Act back to the floor and move Heaven, Earth, and—if necessary—Hell to pass and speed it to President Donald Trump for signature. The U.S. Supreme Court’s calamitous embrace of late-arriving mail-in ballots makes this urgent matter even more vital. With sincere apologies… -
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Not Just West Virginia or Idaho: Supreme Court Protects Women’s Sports in Several States
As part of the cases handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, the six conservative justices delivered a win for women’s sports last week. While the cases came out of West Virginia and Idaho, the high court’s majority sent a message that reverberated in 25 states, including Ohio. In the combined cases of… -
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Even After SCOTUS Citizenship Ruling, Trump Has These Options to Fight Birth Tourism
Although the Supreme Court ruled in favor of birthright citizenship last week, the Trump administration and Congress could still take action to reduce the effect of the policy. Vice President JD Vance endorsed a proposal to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S. territories, citing Roger Severino, vice president of economic and domestic policy at The… -
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Supreme Court Won’t Block Texas App Store Age Verification Law
REUTERS—The Supreme Court declined on Monday to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users and for minors to obtain parental consent to download apps or make purchases, acting in a challenge on free speech grounds by a technology industry group and students. The justices denied requests by… -
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Congress Can Still Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here’s How.
The Supreme Court has committed a grievous moral and legal error in Trump v. Barbara, the landmark case on birthright citizenship. In holding that the 14th Amendment confers automatic citizenship on virtually all children born on American soil, the court has severely vitiated the sanctity of American citizenship—in this “America 250” celebration year, no less…. -
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The Media Eagerly Take the Wrong Side of the Facts on Girls Sports
Journalists love to boast that they are “Facts First” people, that they are the brave souls seeking out “truth.” But when it comes to transgenderism, facts go out the window, and truth is triggering. When the Supreme Court upheld state bans on boys in girls sports, NBC anchor Craig Melvin sounded apologetic in live coverage…. -
After SCOTUS Fails to Act, States Must Step Up to Save Election Day
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The current conservative Supreme Court rarely gets it wrong when it comes to election administration. But in this week’s ruling in Watson v. RNC, that reliable majority flipped on its head with Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberals by holding that, despite plain language in federal law dictating… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Legal Reality of Birthright Citizenship and the Supreme Court’s Defection
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Your thoughts on this birthright citizenship decision by the Supreme Court? Victor Davis Hanson: Well, what… -
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Supreme Court Says 14th Amendment Guarantees Birthright Citizenship to Children of Illegal Aliens and Tourists
In Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority of justices that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment requires all children born within the United States to automatically qualify as citizens at birth. The 14th Amendment provides, in part, that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject… -
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Don’t Buy Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Sleight of Hand on Women’s Sports
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tried to pull a fast one on the American people Tuesday. The court upheld West Virginia’s law preventing men from competing in women’s sports, finding that the law does not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The… -
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Supreme Court Decides ‘Day’ Does Not Mean Day in Watson v. RNC
What’s in a word? Does “day” really mean day? That’s essentially the issue the Supreme Court was asked to decide in Watson v. RNC, where Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for a 5-4 majority that “Election Day,” as used in a statute passed by Congress, does not really mean a single day. Justice Samuel Alito,… -
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One Judge Tells ICE to Stop. The Supreme Court Already Said No.
A federal judge in San Francisco just halted the Trump administration’s policy of arresting migrants at immigration courthouses—everywhere in the country, for everyone. On June 23, 2026, Judge P. Casey Pitts of the Northern District of California issued a 71-page ruling in Pablo Sequen v. Albarran vacating three Immigration and Customs Enforcement courthouse-arrest policies and a… -
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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of State and Local Gun Bans in Major Second Amendment Showdown
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will consider whether states and local governments can ban semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15. The court will review two challenges to bans in Cook County, Illinois, and the state of Connecticut in its next session, which begins in October. Doug Hamlin, CEO of the National Rifle Association, supported the… -
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Conservatives Crackdown On Birth Tourism After SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling
After the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s motion to restrict birthright citizenship on Tuesday, both chambers of Congress are overseeing legislation that would stop foreign travelers from coming to the United States to give birth to a child granted American citizen status. In the upper chamber, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called on his… -
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‘MEDIEVAL’: Justices Thomas, Alito Argue ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Ruling Reverses the Declaration of Independence on Its 250th Anniversary
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito tore into the court’s majority for imposing a “medieval” rule on “birthright citizenship” that negates the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, days before the 250th anniversary of America’s founding document. Both justices issued dissenting opinions in Trump v. Barbara (2026), in which the court’s 6-3 majority… -
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Legacy Media Retracts Alito Story After SCOTUS Decisions
National Public Radio had to retract a story announcing the retirement of Justice Samuel Alito after the report was deemed false. The retraction comes after Alito faced widespread criticism over his recent opinions in different Supreme Court cases, including siding with conservative arguments to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports, dissenting in a case involving… -
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Supreme Court Defends Girls Sports in a Win That Stops Short of the Finish Line
For years, American girls have lined up at the starting blocks only to lose races, scholarships, and records to males who “identify” as females. This morning, the Supreme Court finally said the obvious out loud: Schools can keep girls’ teams for girls. In a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., the court upheld laws… -
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Hill GOP Erupts Over Birthright Citizenship Decision
Congressional conservatives are slamming the Supreme Court of the United States after it ruled to strike down a request from the president to redefine birthright citizenship. The 6-3 decision comes after President Donald Trump’s administration argued that the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applied to descendants of slaves in… -
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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in Blow to Trump Immigration Enforcement
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship, maintaining the status quo. The majority held that children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee,…