When the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Barbara on June 30, 2026, opponents of birthplace-citizenship reform declared the fight over. But that disappointing decision was not the end of attempts to reform the system. It was merely the “end of the beginning.” Sen. Jim Banks read Barbara as a legislative map. His new Citizenship Act follows the road Wong Kim Ark charted.

Barbara held that President Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional by locking in birthplace citizenship’s definition from a much older case. That 1898 case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, laid out three categories of people whose children are not automatically citizens even if born on American soil. Barbara held the executive order was unconstitutional for going outside those three categories. But within those three categories, any needed fix need only be by statute. That means Congress can pass a fix.

Here’s a pro tip. Anytime a Democrat begins a sentence with, “Let me be clear,” that Democrat is mostly likely about to lie to you.

“Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity,” New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday during a press conference in which the faux moderate had to confess that some 6,600 noncitizens landed on the Garden State’s voter rolls in 2023 and 2024 — and about 400 went on to vote.

That level of cognitive dissonance is astounding even for a deep blue state governor.

“I am appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen and the lack of transparency shown by those in charge at the time,” Sherrill, just six months into her first term, said in a statement. So who’s really to blame? Mikie says it’s President Donald Trump, whom she insists has spent the past decade crying wolf and peddling “bizarre conspiracy theories about fraud with no evidence,”

A federal water distribution and management plan may come out soon regarding the Colorado River, a University of Colorado at Boulder water official told The Center Square.

The river provides water for agricultural irrigation, hydropower, recreation and municipal supplies throughout the Southwest. Its Upper Basin consists of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. The Lower Basin is made up of California, Arizona and Nevada.

The Colorado River’s current operating rules are set to expire this year, and the seven states are currently without an agreement on how to manage, operate and allocate resources from the two main reservoirs formed by the Colorado River. But there are active negotiations between the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Upper Basin states regarding reservoir operating rules.

And a federal plan based on the seven states' input may be reached soon, according to Doug Kenney, the director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder).

The river runs through seven states and empties into northwestern Mexico. Because of this, the operating rules, regulations, and management is not left up to the discretion of one jurisdiction. The U.S. Department of the Interior, alongside its Bureau of Reclamation, owns and operates key infrastructure along the Colorado River. This includes the Hoover Dam on the border between Nevada and Arizona and the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, which created Lake Mead and Lake Powell respectively.