As of today, the bloc of four conservatives who would have gone full Trump deserve to be called “the Four Horsemen.” On the court, the nickname goes back to the 1930s, when journalists evoked the Bible’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as a way of describing the four hard-core conservative justices who blocked progressive legislation for years.
How Was the Birthright Citizenship Decision This Close?bloomberg.comThe good news about the landmark birthright citizenship decision the Supreme Court issued today is that it correctly holds that children born in the US automatically become citizens. That’s the right interpretation of the 14th Amendment and reaffirms the 1898 precedent that the president tried to upend with his executive order purporting to deny citizenship to children of undocumented people.