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Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law at American University. He is the author of America’s Forgotten Constitutions and Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation.
What the debate between William Buckley and James Baldwin reveals about the modern conservative movement.
The Fourteenth Amendment was shaped by freed blacks’ insistence that everyone born in the United States deserved full citizenship.
Jeff Sessions is fond of citing the Bible to support the persecution of immigrants, in stark contrast to a long tradition of biblical interpretation.
We can’t fully appreciate the current anti-immigration moment without understanding the decades-long investment by right-wing movement politics.
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