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Carol Nackenoff

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Richter Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scholar, Swarthmore College (PA)

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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?? Thanks to Jack Chin for sharing this dreadful post www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants
The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The C.J.'s majority opinion in Barbara makes most of the arguments J. Novkov and I do in American By Birth: transatlantic crossing of common law understandings of jus soli, what the authors of the 14th A. meant, the irrelevance of Elk v. Wilkins, the meaning of Wong Kim Ark, and the role Congress
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I thought this piece was quite interesting. The reorganization may or may not come to pass, but this Jonathan Swabish guest post on Can We Still Govern? seems consistent with the downsizing of food assistance enshrined in the current farm bill www.wfyi.org/statewide/20...
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I found this guest post on Can We Still Govern? (D. Moynihan substack) very interesting, "Why is Trump Relocating the Food and Nutrition Service?" in light of cuts to food/nutrition aid that stand to get enshrined in the farm bill. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Why is Trump Relocating the Food and Nutrition Service?
The data shows it is not to move services closer to those receiving benefits
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I’ve been concerned about the fate of Plyler v Doe (children without documentation cannot be denied state-provided education offered to others). This important 5-4 decision rests on the usual reading of Wong Kim Ark. Joyce Vance elaborates the threat today staytuned.substack.com/cp/193590620
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Read Adam Liptak’s piece on what Trump’s theory of birthright citizenship would have meant to members of Congress at the time of the 14th amendment’s ratification and citing Amanda Frost www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Plan
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Tune In to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Opinion | Tune In to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming.
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Immigration and Citizenship: Why the 1898 Wong Kim Ark Case is Relevant Today by Carol Nackenoff - University Press of Kansas
During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Awareness Month, it is important to recall how courageous people of Asian heritage struggled to attain
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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How citizenship chaos was averted, for now, by a class action injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order
The Supreme Court can still invalidate the newest national injunction and allow the order to go into effect anywhere it is not currently barred from doing so. That would create administrative chaos, t...
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I think this recent op-ed by emeritus law professor and terrific scholar Christian Fritz will be of interest to some of you. I post it, entitled "The Constitution--Not Trump--Demands Allegiance" with his permission. abqjournal-nm.newsmemory.com?publink=1b93...
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Birthright citizenship changes? They portend caste hierarchies that will affect citizens as well. Here is my recent Mother Jones interview: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump is creating an American caste system
If the administration's birthright citizenship executive order is implemented, "there will be a new kind of stratification" in the United States.
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here's a new piece on Wong Kim Ark and birthright citizenship from Amy Qin (NY Times)--I am not quoted but served as a background source. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
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This Man Won Birthright Citizenship for All
When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Robert Reich talks about one of the big concerns I have robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
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The end of law?
The Trump regime is refusing to be bound by the federal courts. Where will this end?
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Carol Nackenoff @cnacken1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I've been giving some interviews on the Trump birthright citizenship executive order (because of the book J. Novkov and I wrote, American By Birth, but here is something good by way of introduction and background that I had nothing to do with--just thought I'd share: www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/p...
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Analysis: How the modern Supreme Court might look at the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of it...
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