
Professor Lash and Lynch v. Clarke, the Case He Wishes Would Go Away
Kurt Lash recently posted a revised draft of his anti-birthright citizenship article, Prima Facie Citizenship: Birth, Allegiance and the...

WTF is "Prima Facie Citizenship"? Nothing New
In the push to manufacture a debate over birthright citizenship, a new concept has appeared: "prima facie citizenship." Kurt Lash has...

Barnett and Wurman's Fundamental Misunderstanding of "Amity" in their "Allegiance for Protection" Theory of Birthright Citizenship
By now, most will have seen Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman's disastrous opinion piece in the New York Times, Trump Might Have a Case on...

The unemployment-benefits system and the bogus negligence lawsuit against the state, part 2
In part 1, I explained that there is a two-step analysis for determining whether the state can be held liable for the crash of the...

Is President Trump a legally registered voter in Florida? Maybe, but maybe not
President Donald Trump has long railed against voter fraud. Shortly after the 2016 election, he tweeted that he “won the popular vote if...

The unemployment-benefits system and the bogus negligence lawsuit against the state, part 1
Like I said in my last post, and as is very well known, Florida’s unemployment-benefits system crashed under the weight of applications...

Gov. DeSantis is right: He can’t increase or extend unemployment benefits
Florida’s unemployment-benefits system is a mess. During former Republican Gov. and current Senator Rick Scott’s tenure, the state spent...

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I'm an appellate lawyer in West Palm Beach, Florida. I contribute articles to Slate on current issues in Florida law. Sometimes, though,...
