For the first time in more than 80 years, the U.S. has denied Mexico’s request for water from the Colorado River, escalating tensions over a water-sharing agreement between the two nations. The State Department says it denied the request because Mexico hasn’t complied with the 1944 treaty that established the water-sharing system. That agreement requires […]
You’ve probably heard that President Donald Trump is prepared to slap some huge tariffs on nearly all imports from Canada and Mexico this week. But you might also be wondering: How is it that the president can unilaterally decide what tariffs get charged on which imports? And if he’s determined to make everything from Canadian […]
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In an apparent attempt to appease President Trump in the hope of averting the imposition of U.S. tariffs on Mexico, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum did four things: 1. Sent 29 Mexican citizens to the United States so that they could be prosecuted for violating America’s drug laws; 2. Sent thousands of Mexican troops to the […]
(NA) On February 24, 2025, Kurt Lash posted 8 pages on SSRN. It was an introduction to a work-in-progress about the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause. Lash stated his intention to challenge a scholarly consensus which spans the ideological and methodological spectrum, asserting that “children born in the United States to noncitizen parents […]
The Volokh Conspiracy and I are pleased to welcome guest-blogger Prof. Evan Bernick. He is a law professor at Northern Illinois University, and author of numerous works on constitutional theory and the Fourteenth Amendment. Evan will be guest-blogging about the ongoing debate over the legality of President Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to children […]
“I’m not joking,” said President Donald Trump to NBC this past weekend, referring to his talk of seeking a third term. “A lot of people want me to do it,” said Trump on the air. “But I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in […]
Loyola University of Chicago used to have a law school professor named George Anastaplo. I learned about him in my late teens through a long piece in The Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine, which was written before most newspaper journalism turned into irredeemable garbage. I think it if fair to say he is someone who the […]
Last week, I posted an excerpt of Paul Clement’s arguments as to why the Executive Order targeting the WilmerHale law firm violates the Constitution, and said they struck me as quite correct. (The analysis is similar, I think, with regard to the other Executive Orders targeting law firms.) In response, a reader asked: With all […]
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