US appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency bid to curtail birthright citizenship

The US Court of Appeals confirmed Wednesday that it would comply with an order that would block President Donald Trump from cutting automatic birth citizenship across the country as part of a Republican hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings. I did. The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration's request for an […]

We must curtail the presidential pardon power in case Trump wins

According to Alexander Hamilton, the vast unilateral power to grant pardonsMeticulousness and caution will naturally emerge.” to the president. Clearly, then, the framers of the Constitution did not recognize the danger posed by a president as greedy, nepotistic, and reckless as Donald Trump. In his first term, we saw how Trump flouted this measure of […]