The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s ...

Precedent and the text make clear that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing a Maryland judge's ruling that blocked his executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of non-legal immigrants. The appeal is ...

The Department of Justice recently argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to Native Americans. The administration ...

We’ll keep fighting until this executive order is ended once and for all,' the plaintiff's attorney said outside the ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...