Many Indian families rely on birthright citizenship for their U.S.-born children to gain legal standing and, eventually, help ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the ...

Within 24 hours of becoming president, Donald Trump released his first White House Fact Sheet, “Ending the Radical and ...

There are rumblings that President Trump is considering disobeying various of the court orders that have been issued against his administration. Perhaps these rumblings are distorted or ...

As courts issue orders that pause or restrict a number of Trump actions, a more seismic conflict potentially lies ahead. On ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

The issue of whether enslaved people were eligible for U.S. citizenship came to the forefront in 1857 when the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Dred Scott, a slave, and his bid to sue for freedom.

Whatever Judge Ho’s current position, the conclusion of his 2016 article may turn out to be prescient. “Stay tuned,” he wrote. “Dred Scott II could be coming soon to a federal court near you.” ...

In their decision, the court said Black people were not entitled to citizenship and even claimed they were inferior to white people.The Dred Scott decision contributed to the start of the Civil War.

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. One of the most controversial of the executive orders signed by President ...

In the decade before the amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a landmark ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford stating that people of African descent, whether they were free descendants of ...