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US Supreme Court analyst @NewsHour; contributor @ConstitutionCtr; former SCOTUS reporter @TheNLJ. Author, The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
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In birthright citizenship opinions, a major constitutional disagreement

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By Marcia Coyle
| Constitution Daily Blog
The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the public’s understanding for more than 100 years that the Constitution guarantees citizenship, with narrow exceptions, to people born in this country. But particularly striking was that four justices disagreed with the majority’s interpretation of that constitutional guarantee.
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Justices rule that states may count late-arriving election ballots

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By Marcia Coyle
| Constitution Daily Blog
Alaska state officials may have released the greatest sigh of relief on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that federal election laws do not override a state law that permits counting ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days later. The state law at issue in the high court was actually a Mississippi law. But Alaska’s relief stems from the fact, as noted in its brief filed to support Mississippi, that nearly all Alaskan voters vote by mail.
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Looking for unanimity in the Birthright Citizenship decision

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By Marcia Coyle
| Constitution Daily Blog
On rare occasions, a Supreme Court case raises such fundamental questions about the nature of our nation that it seems to require a unanimous decision by the justices. Brown v. Board of Education, striking down racially segregated schools, was such a case. Is the birthright citizenship challenge also one? When President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 appointed Earl Warren, the former governor of California, chief justice of the United States, Warren inherited a divided and fractious court.
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