An Argentine emigre in Florida quickly got her newborn son a U.S. passport last year. During a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s executive order to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to people in the country illegally or temporarily, the passport was tangible evidence the baby is American. The Supreme Court hears arguments over the order's fate Wednesday in a New Hampshire case. The 14th Amendment and federal law have been widely understood to make citizens of everyone born in the country, with narrow exceptions. Every court that's ruled has found Trump's order illegal and prevented it from taking effect. The effort to repeal birthright citizenship is part of Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot. In 2018, an eighth-grader sought the Democratic nomination for governor but finished last in a four-way primary. Now, 14-year-old Dean Roy is the candidate, and he secured his spot on the ballot by creating the Freedom and Unity Party. Both were able to run because the state constitution sets no minimum age for gubernatorial candidates. Roy says he doesn't expect to win but he wants to start a movement and get more young people involved in changing the world.

A U.S. judge has pressed the Trump administration about its basis for barring Venezuela’s government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro’s legal fees in his drug trafficking case. Maduro and Cilia Flores, his wife and co-defendant, were in a New York federal court Thursday for the first time since January. Maduro's lawyers argued that the U.S. is violating the deposed leader’s constitutional rights by blocking Venezuelan government money from being used for the couple’s legal costs. The U.S. government hasn’t let the funds flow because of sanctions against the South American country. The judge didn’t issue a ruling, however, nor say when he will.

Clergy groups in Minnesota are asking a federal judge to order ICE to allow in-person pastoral visits for immigrants held in a Minneapolis federal building. Judge Jerry Blackwell is to hear arguments Friday on access to the building in Minneapolis. Lutheran, United Church of Christ, and Catholic leaders say Immigration and Customs Enforcement has blocked clergy from providing sacraments and other spiritual care. They say the restrictions violate the Constitution and a federal religious freedom law. The government says the enforcement surge officially ended in February and restrictions have eased since. ICE calls the building a short-term holding facility, and not the kind of long-term detention center where more clergy visits are allowed.

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on flag burning. Jay Carey of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested in August after he set fire to a flag in Lafayette Park. Earlier that day, Trump signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag. Carey was charged with two misdemeanors that aren’t focused on the act of burning a flag and pleaded not guilty. Carey says he hopes the victory "can help the next person who takes a stand.”

The House and Senate fight over war powers and Congress' role in Iran is just the latest wrangling in a constitutional tug of war. Through World War II, Congress declared war 11 times across five wars. But they haven't done so since. Instead, Congress has used authorizations of force and presidents have asserted their authority as commander in chief. Most recently, both chambers declined to attempt to limit Donald Trump’s war-making powers in Venezuela. Some experts — and plenty of lawmakers — say the balance of power has long been tilted away from what the Constitution requires.