Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated. It may not be as oft-quoted as the First ...

When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir ...

In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United States ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s ...

One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the United States adopted a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, one of the American bedrocks of equality. Now, that ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

I’m not a lawyer; maybe that helps me understand the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship better than J. Christian Adams (“Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is wrong,” April 22).

The anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment comes at a time when birthright citizenship is under threat by the Trump administration. A recent SCOTUS ruling allowed Trump’s executive ...