The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Amicus Curiae
The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence is the public-interest law arm of the California-based Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 27, 2026. The court below, the several other forum-shopped courts that have addressed the president’s “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” executive order and even three justices of this court in their dissenting opinions in Trump v. CASA (2025) all asserted that the text of the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause is “plain,” “unequivocal” and “clear,” and that the issue…
