The Supreme Court ‘could have simply decided that the 14th Amendment’s clear mandate that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States” meant exactly what it said,’ writes an L.A. Times reader.

An L.A. Times reader asks, ‘Since Hegseth clearly doesn’t want ships to be named after politicians, can we assume that the carrier USS Ronald Reagan will also be renamed?’

‘Under “America First,” all we have is a series of capricious tariff directives, the brutal and unlawful detention and deportation of migrants both documented and undocumented, a condemnatory view of our NATO responsibilities and a manufacturing base in decline,’ writes an L.A. Times reader.

‘Gonzalez ... did not call for peaceful resistance. She explicitly invoked violent street gangs — with long histories of murder, extortion and drug trafficking — to take up space and power against federal agents,’ writes an L.A. Times reader.

‘I really long for those distant days when press conferences provided actual information through civil and polite questions and answers,’ writes an L.A. Times reader.