Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship -- the idea that all ...

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's opponents.

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship — the idea that ...

And in contrast to other areas of policy and individual rights, the justices have not signaled any desire to revisit United States v. Wong Kim Ark. It states: “All persons born or naturalized in ...

The case made its way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the Constitution granted birthright citizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil, regardless of ...

In 1898, the Supreme Court heard the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark was born in California, but spent an extended period of time in China in the 1890s. Upon returning ...

In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that children born in the United States to immigrant parents were entitled to U.S. citizenship, and the principle has ...

In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

“Through the hard-fought legal battle of Wong Kim Ark v the United States in 1898, the Supreme Court upheld that birthright citizenship is a constitutionally protected right, and it is President ...