Amy Davidson Sorkin

Here’s my briefing on what’s at stake in tomorrow’s SCOTUS birthright-citizenship oral arguments, for @newyorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

I wrote about Trump’s loss in the SCOTUS tariff case (and more than people may want to know about Gorsuch’s 46-page concurrence on the “major questions doctrine”) for @NewYorker

A critical mass of Justices could upend our long-shared understanding of what it means to be born an American. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8L-789

I wrote about new books by ⁦@CarolLeonnig⁩ - ⁦@byaaroncdavis⁩ & @jonkarl , which raise questions: Was the multiheaded drive to prosecute Trump a mistake? Did it help him? And did Merrick Garland get a bad rap? ⁦@NewYorker⁩ newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, is incredibly brave to publish this piece @newyorker.com. She writes beautifully and thinks clearly. God grant her and her family strength and peace. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Was the multiheaded legal pursuit of Donald Trump one big mistake? newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

New Interview: newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

Agreed!

Read ⁦@JeannieSGersen⁩ on the scandal of what both parties have allowed the President’s war powers to become—and Congress’s multi-decade cowardice. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Important discussion, thoughtful piece by @nickconfessore

I’m devastated to learn that my friend, Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were killed in last night’s shooting.

“From this perspective, there are no safe reservoirs of power. Corporations sometimes serve the national interest and sometimes betray it. The same is true for governments, for unions, for churches, for nonprofits.” Good reminder from @ezraklein

I spent the last 24 hours talking to people who knew Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky. They were idealistic, young. They had distinct paths to working for state of Israel. They were murdered without regard for who they were or what they believed. (1/x) newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

Today's front page.

"Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority." - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/Complain421t

Pope Francis, who died today at 88, was the antithesis of a strongman. “He was the model of the world leader as a shrewd, searching, and practical man who faced hard choices in vexing circumstances, and responded humbly,” @Paul_R_Elie writes. nyer.cm/IyDWj9a

The assault on birthright citizenship has been a long time coming. For background, here’s a piece I wrote when Trump was running the first time and deriding the Fourteenth Amendment as something akin to a paternity-suit scam. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…