"All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby …"

"Merely declaratory of what the law now is"

"Simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution"

"Its main purpose doubtless was, as has been often recognized by this court, to establish the citizenship of free negr…"

"The main object of the opening sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment was to settle the question, upon which there had …"

"The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States b…"

"In enacting the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, the Framers similarly chose to employ the 'life, liberty, or pr…"

"[N]ot once in the history of the American Republic has this Court ever suggested the death penalty is categorically i…"

"Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment known the …"

"It just makes me uncomfortable that the president, whoever it is, is the prosecutor, the judge, the jury and the exec…"