Erica Buchberger

No. 25-365 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ____________________ DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., Petitioners, v. BARBARA, ET AL., Respondents. ____________________ On Writ of Certiorari Before Judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ____________________ BRIEF OF CHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS ____________________ JUSTIN SADOWSKY Counsel of Record CHINESE AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE ALLIANCE 4250 N. Fairfax Drive #600 Arlington, VA 22203

vi Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans and Immigration 41 (Oxford University Press) (pub. forthcoming 2026) ................................... 5, 6, 7, 13 Annuaire l'Inst de Droit Int'l , xiv (1877) [1994] .................................................................. 16 Bernadette Meyler, The Gestation of Birthright Citizenship, 1868-1898: States’ Rights, The Law of Nations, and Mutual Consent 521, Georgetown Univ. L.J. Vol. 15 (2001) .................. 8 Brief Amici Curiae of Senator Ted Cruz, et al. in Support of Petitioners, Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365 (U.S. Jan. 28, 2026). .......................................... 2, 29, 32 Brief for Petitioner, Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365 (U.S. Sep. 26, 2025) .............. 2, 26, 32 Brief of Respondents, Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365 (U.S. Oct. 29, 2025) ..................................................................... 9 Brief for the United States, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, No. 132 (1898) .......................... 18, 20, 30, 32 Caroline Jordan, Remaking Life: The Culture of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers 1, The Purdue Historian Vol. 12, art. 3 (2025) ............................ 6 Cong. Globe, 1st Sess. 39th Cong. (1866). ............................................

In a first, my book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship is cited in the amicus filed by the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance in defense of birthright citizenship. The scholarship of Lucy Salyer, Sam Erman, and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal among other historians are also cited.

Even within the paradigm of 'uni increases your earning power' it seems odd and a shame that people apparently think it is the grades and degree/paper doing this, rather than knowing stuff, learning how to do things, and learning how to learn.

The most high-profile kidnapping case of our time is still unsolved and Kash Patel is slamming beers in the locker room with US men's Olympic hockey team.

These are the same people trying to keep us from teaching ‘divisive concepts’ like the afterlife of slavery.

You know what Einstein didn't need to do his work?

"if we place these humans in a simulated world and then harvest the energy that their body produces in that 20 years, the savings will be immense. I present to you: the Matrix."

A Calvin & Hobbes comic -- the last in the series -- celebrating the wondrous possibilities of a fresh snowfall

Reject those blizzard-provoked "pivots" to remote instruction! Claim your rightfully-earned snow day! There's far too little room for unscripted, exploratory, joyful learning!

always raises a red flag when people keep just asking questions that have in fact been studied and answered

Although not as bad as January, we all know that February is still quite a tough month, so here's a Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant, showing off a bit but then, if I looked like that, I'd show off quite a bit too.

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

Ooooof

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid.

Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Surprise, surprise: Russia-Ukraine talks yield no peace breakthrough The negotiations have largely become political theater for an audience comprising Donald Trump.

The world is entitled to know if our negotiators are entertaining side deals with Russia while negotiating for the United States.
www.politico.eu/article/surp...

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I'm a public scholar because David showed me how to be, and opened the doors for me to make it possible. I cannot wait for this book.

Today’s Great News (For Everyone Except Trump) New Mexico bans ICE contracts, Newsom shines in Munich, AOC demands Bondi’s impeachment, and Mark Kelly calls out Trump's NATO Betrayal

The Resistance is winning. From New Mexico to Munich, Trump is losing control. Read more:

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

My god! This is amazing. Imagine if we had an administration that recognized #Science & funded it accordingly! 😔

Democrats should offer a vision of orderly immigration, opposed to cruel closure and mass deportation. Basically, channel Reagan: “if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There. Then an elementary school was built on top of it.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵

thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/11/a...

how is everything so impossibly stupid

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

THE STRANGER'S CASE
"Sir Thomas More," William Shakespeare et al

A speech about those who would murder immigrants to satisfy their own hatred, delivered with power by Sir Ian McKellen.

youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

On top of the depraved and bone-rotted amorality of dismantling a newspaper to make it a chatgpt machine for mr trump’s handsome accomplishments this is a style guide breach of the rule about not using passive voice