Upheld: The Supreme Court and Birthright Citizenship,

Upheld: The Supreme Court and Birthright Citizenship, a full book about the controversy, was published in June just after the Supreme Court announced its decision. 

It is on Amazon now, in ebook and paperback, and is included in Kindle Unlimited. If you followed this case and wanted more than the news coverage could give you, this is the book I wrote for you. 

Here's the Amazon blurb:

She is known only as Barbara. A Honduran asylum seeker living in New Hampshire, she gave birth to a daughter in October 2025 — a daughter born on American soil, a daughter the president's executive order said was not an American citizen. On April 1, 2026, her case reached the Supreme Court of the United States. A sitting president attended the arguments, the first in the official record to do so. On June 30, 2026, the Court ruled.

Upheld is the complete story of Trump v. Barbara — the most consequential citizenship case in more than a century. It begins where the story actually begins: with the wreckage of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857, the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment in the aftermath of the Civil War, and the landmark 1898 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that established birthright citizenship as settled constitutional law for the next 128 years. It traces the thirty-year political journey that carried the idea of ending birthright citizenship from the margins of American politics to a presidential executive order signed on the first day of a second term. It explains the originalist debate — the genuine, serious scholarly disagreement about what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment understood themselves to be doing — and what was actually at stake for the more than 250,000 children born on American soil every year to parents without citizenship or permanent residency.

It closes with the ruling itself: a 6-3 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, a notable separate opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh that leaves a constitutional question unresolved, and the words with which the Chief Justice closed his opinion — "Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights... We keep that promise today."

Written and published within hours of the Supreme Court's decision, this is the book that could only exist after the ruling came down. The news covered the decision. This book covers everything that led there — and what it means.

The Backstory series. Because the event is just the ending.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3HNF4FD