{"id":1443,"date":"2026-05-18T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:39:02","slug":"i-wanted-to-understand-what-it-means-to-lay-claim-to-american-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/i-wanted-to-understand-what-it-means-to-lay-claim-to-american-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I wanted to understand what it means to lay claim to American identity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an interview with A&amp;S Communications (Cornell University College of Arts &amp; Sciences), Government, History and Robert S. Harrison Scholar Christina MacCorkle talks about her experience as a research assistant for the Cornell First Amendment Clinic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/as.cornell.edu\/news\/i-wanted-understand-what-it-means-lay-claim-american-identity\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img6667-christina-maccorkle-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img6667-christina-maccorkle-web.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img6667-christina-maccorkle-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img6667-christina-maccorkle-web-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Christina MacCorkle, Government, History and Robert S. Harrison College Scholar and research assistant for the Cornell First Amendment Clinic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with A&amp;S Communications (Cornell University College of Arts &amp; Sciences), Government, History and Robert S. Harrison Scholar Christina MacCorkle talks about her experience as a research assistant for the Cornell First Amendment Clinic. Read the full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}