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The Justice Department is seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of two China-born men convicted in separate cases of working for the Chinese communist regime. The department filed a denaturalization case—seeking to revoke naturalized U.S. citizenship—against former U.S. Navy sailor Wei Jinchao in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Sept. 30 and a complaint against Florida technology worker Li Ping in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Oct. 1, according to an Oct. 5 Justice Department announcement. The two cases are among 40 denaturalization actions the Justice Department said it...

An appeals court on Wednesday reinstated an Ohio law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote at motor vehicles offices, a win for Republicans seeking to tighten voter requirements nationwide. A panel of three judges on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to block a lower court ruling that had granted a preliminary injunction against the voter ID law in August. The majority argued that the advocacy groups that brought the suit failed to demonstrate that the law would likely prevent people from registering to vote. Red Wine & Blue and Ohio Alliance for...

A federal appellate court ruled on Wednesday that Ohio can enforce its law requiring proof-of-citizenship to vote in the midterm elections. In a 2-1 decision, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals paused a preliminary injunction issued by Ohio-based Senior District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. last month. The Obama appointee’s order sought to block the Buckeye State from enforcing its statutory requirement that individuals provide documentary proof-of-citizenship when registering to vote. As described by Courthouse News, Oliver argued that the contested provision is “preempted by the National Voter Registration Act and increases the likelihood that U.S. citizens fail to register for...

Sept 24 (Reuters) - A US appeals court has for now reinstated an Ohio law requiring residents to present documentary proof of ​citizenship when registering to vote at the state's motor ‌vehicle offices, in a boost for allies of President Donald Trump who want tighter voter registration rules. SNIP

The decision in Trump v. Barbara, which reaffirmed, by virtue of the 14th Amendment, that nearly all children born on U.S. soil are citizens at birth, pretty much shot down President Trump's attempt to squelch the citizenship issue.In light of what SCOTUS handed down, which did still allow him some latitude for restriction by executive order, the President moved to avoid the constitutional issue and pivot to regulating the visa, travel, and beneficiary vectors.In two executive orders, he hit what he could before a pregnant woman entered the country and the eligible categories, without tripping on the birthright pressure plate....Rather...

They could also reshape congressional representation and federal funding allocations. Millions of residents could be excluded from the U.S. census, congressional representation could be reshaped and federal funds could be reallocated across states under changes proposed by the Trump administration. In the proposal posted to the federal register Wednesday, the Census Bureau suggested adding a citizenship question to the decennial questionnaire, which President Donald Trump has wanted since his first term. The proposal argues that the census count should exclude any undocumented immigrants and noncitizens without permanent residency because they are “not true inhabitants, members of the body politic, or...

The "good thief" of Luke 23 was not executed for simple thievery. In the context of first-century Roman Judea, simple theft was never a capital offense. [1, 2] To understand why he was crucified, it is necessary to look at the specific language of the Gospels and the nature of Roman provincial law. [2, 3] The Greek Terminology: Beyond Simple TheftWhile Luke 23:32 uses the general plural noun kakourgoi (κακοῦργοι), which translates to "criminals," "evildoers," or "malefactors," the parallel accounts in Matthew 27:38 and Mark 15:27 use a much more specific word: lēstai (λῃσταί). [4, 5] What it does not...

A former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official and his accomplice are facing charges for an alleged bribery scheme in which they accepted nearly $960,000 in exchange for favors in the processing of immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases. The former official, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and his financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi‑year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. The pair were charged with conspiracy to receive illegal gratuities...

In his first at-bat since becoming an American citizen, Cincinnati Reds slugger Eugenio Suárez got a new walk-up song. When he stepped to the plate in the second inning, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA" began playing throughout Great American Ball Park. The music change was orchestrated by his teammates after Suárez left the team earlier this week to take the U.S. naturalization test in Miami and ultimately passed to become an American citizen. "It's very, very cool," Reds manager Terry Francona told reporters Sept. 4. "He was excited and he should be. It's very neat." Prior to the Reds-Brewers...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order that aimed to restrict birthright citizenship. The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, granted immigrant rights advocates’ request for a preliminary injunction, which comes roughly two months after the Supreme Court rejected the administration’s initial effort to end birthright citizenship. At first, the judge declined to block the directive Trump signed on Aug. 6 but allowed the immigrant groups to revise their lawsuit so that she could then consider whether to issue a preliminary injunction against what she described as an “unprecedented” order....

WASHINGTON — A federal judge pumped the brakes on President Trump’s latest effort to rein in birthright citizenship through executive order, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling against his first attempt. Maryland-based US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday temporarily blocking Trump’s scaled-down executive orders last month to stop birth tourism. “The 2026 Executive Order is almost certainly unconstitutional … for the simple reason that the Supreme Court in Barbara already decided that the children in the class are citizens at birth,” Boardman, a Biden appointee, wrote in the opinion — referring to the Supreme Court case, Trump...

A 25-year-old Austin man returned to the United States from Mexico over the weekend after being deported despite telling federal immigration officials he was a U.S. citizen, according to his attorneys. Brian José Morales García was deported in April after a traffic stop in Fredericksburg. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Gillespie County sheriff's deputies who pulled over his work vehicle did not believe him when he said he was a U.S. citizen and contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Federal immigration officials disputed that Morales García was a U.S. citizen and accused him of entering the country illegally,...

A federal judge on Friday declined to block President Donald Trump's revised birthright citizenship order after the Supreme Court struck down his first plan. Trump originally directed federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as not granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, but the Supreme Court shut down that order, prompting him to issue a revised directive. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman previously issued a stay on Trump's first order, but did not do so against the revised version, Reuters reported. The Biden-appointed judge was nonetheless skeptical of the order's constitutionality. Trump signed the revised order earlier this...

Lansing—Democratic members of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted Monday against certifying the Americans for Citizen Voting initiative, leaving the proposed constitutional amendment to require proof of citizenship off the November ballot after a contentious debate. The four-member board deadlocked 2-2, with Republican members Chair Richard Houskamp and Paul Cordes voting to certify the petition and Democratic members Vice Chair Mary Ellen Gurewitz and Heather Cummings voting against certification. Since the Board has four members in order to have a petition certified there must be at least three members who vote for it. The initiative needed 629 valid signatures...

An extremely bad Supreme Court decision coinciding with an international soccer tournament and a blockbuster Hollywood movie show that U.S. citizenship no longer belongs to us, but to the entire world. In Trump v. Barbara, the John Roberts SCOTUS Majority declared on June 30 that any child, regardless of his parents’ citizenship, legal status or residency, is a U.S. citizen. During the 2026 FIFA World Cup U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun was a media poster child for automatic birthright citizenship. Time magazine ran an article entitled “The U.S. Can Thank Birthright Citizenship for Its Best World Cup Player.” Frankly, having...

Yesterday, the President signed new Executive Orders expanding the definition of who is excluded from Birthright Citizenship. While there is an absolute likelihood that all those really smart attorneys and other people in the Executive branch came up with the updated policies independent of anything I floated here, in the blogosphere, and through indirect channels, I will take it as a win. Even if independently arrived at by others, the ideas floated here definitely appear to have been ground into the sausage making process of the new policies. Never underestimate the impact of Free Republic on national debates! -- Back...

President Trump issued an order Thursday to crack down on “birth tourism” after he was defeated at the Supreme Court earlier this summer on the birthright citizenship issue. Trump said the executive order would stop wealthy people from “buying their way” into citizenship with pregnant women traveling to the US birth an American baby. “They’ve taken birthright citizenship and they’ve made a joke out of it,” he said during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. The order bars citizenship for children born to mothers who enter the United States for the sole purpose of having a child on American...

Texas Congressman Brandon Gill is a rising superstar in the Republican Party.You might have caught him dressing down the Smithsonian director with instant-classics like asking if politeness is a form of “white supremacy.”Things that are “white supremacist,” according to the left:Being polite.Being on time.Being objective.We let this insanity go unanswered for years. That ends now. pic.twitter.com/LpXtZAE2NP— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) July 23, 2026Unlike a lot of other GOP politicians, however, Gill isn’t just going to toss a few scraps of red meat our way while ignoring it’s actually his job to solve problems.Congress is not political theater and you guys...

The commercial surrogacy industry asks us to believe that contracts can redefine motherhood, assign parenthood, and eliminate the bonds formed during pregnancy and infancy. Kyla’s experience demonstrates the opposite.Two strangers arrived at Kyla Simpson’s Florida home in March 2025 to collect the three baby boys she had carried in her womb, brought into the world, and nurtured for four and a half months. They claimed they had been sent by the children’s intended father — a Chinese citizen who had commissioned the surrogacy but had never traveled to the United States. Kyla refused to answer the door and contacted authorities....

Sen. Jim Banks has offered a text-and-precedent-bound response to a decision his opponents assumed had ended the debate.When the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Barbara on June 30, 2026, opponents of birthplace-citizenship reform declared the fight over. But that disappointing decision was not the end of attempts to reform the system. It was merely the “end of the beginning.” Sen. Jim Banks read Barbara as a legislative map. His new Citizenship Act follows the road Wong Kim Ark charted.Barbara held that President Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional by locking in birthplace citizenship’s definition from a much older case. That 1898...