Videos

Historians, journalists, and scholars talked about the history and future of birthright citizenship and immigration policy since Reconstruction.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument for Vidal v. Trump. The case concerns the president’s decision to terminate the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood…

Jeffrey Rosen spoke by phone about the history of the 14th Amendment and arguments for and against birthright citizenship.

President Trump took questions from reporters as he departed the White House for a Florida campaign event. One of the questions was on the migrant caravan headed to the U.S. southern border…

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders talked to reporters about President Trump’s strategy to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. She said the president…

Telephone lines and social media were open for viewer comments on the question “Should the U.S. end birthright citizenship?” National Constitution Center President & CEO Jeffrey Rosen also…

During an interview with Politico, Vice President Mike Pence remarked on President Trump’s intention to review birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. “What the president has made clear is…

Clemson University history professor Orville Vernon Burton talked about the origins of the 14th Amendment, and why it was essential and necessary to ratify after the South’s defeat in the…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Abbott v. Perez, a consolidated case concerning redistricting in Texas. This case dates o 2011 when the state House and congressional districts were…

Neal Katyal and Randy Barnett talked about the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The landmark case concerns a medical school applicant who claimed he was rejected…

Carol Steiker and Kent Scheidegger talked about the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Gregg v. Georgia, the landmark case concerning Troy Leon Gregg, a convicted armed robber and murderer who challenged his…

Administrators and students reacted to the Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which upheld the concept of affirmative action but struck down the use…

Survival of the Veiled Face: The Constitutionality of Abortion was the first-prize middle school winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Kiera Lamb, Uma Fox, and Kiah Beachler, eighth…

The Equal Protection Clause: Creating a More Perfect Union was one of the second-prize high school east winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Mia and Ava Lazar, students at Blacksburg…

Law Professors Ted Shaw and Michael Klarman talked about the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which came about after Homer Plessy, an African American man, was arrested in New Orleans for taking a seat reserved…

Professors Mae Ngai and Josh Blackman talked about the 1886 Supreme Court decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, a case in which a Chinese laundry owner challenged a discriminatory city ordinance. The…

Howard Law School Dean Danielle Holley-Walker and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow talked about Civil Rights Cases (1883). In the group of five consolidated cases, the Supreme Court…

Randy Barnett and Paul Kens talked about the 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York in which the court voted 5-4 to strike down a state law restricting the number of hours that a baker could…

Professor Randy Barnett talked about the U.S. Supreme Court Slaughterhouse Cases. In the series of cases, the Supreme Court upheld a monopoly of slaughterhouses in New Orleans to protect…

Paul Clement and Michael Ross talked about the 1873 Supreme Court ruling on the Slaughterhouse Cases, in which the court declined 5-4 to broadly apply the Fourteenth Amendment when New Orleans butchers…