But this modern understanding of “birthright citizenship” isn’t what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended — and ...

This had to do with the babies of slaves,” the president asserted yesterday, at a press conference celebrating a Supreme Court decision that partially clears the way for the administration to end the ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, learn what the 14th Amendment ...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Trump a win by lifting blocks on his efforts to end birthright citizenship for ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us ...

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 ...

The intent of that clause in the 14th Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, was granting citizenship to freed slaves, annulling the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1858 Dred Scott decision, which ruled, in ...

The constitutional guarantee of citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil originates from the 14th Amendment and was upheld by the Supreme Court in the pivotal 1898 case United States v. Wong Kim Ark .

Amendment 4 ensures that terminating a pregnancy before viability is legal healthcare. What does viability mean? Technically, it means “able to survive,” and in this context, the ability for a ...

How the modern Supreme Court might view the 14th Amendment ... meaning under the common law that existed” when the Amendment was adopted, and “that meaning was reiterated and explained ...