The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara does more than uphold a broad view of birthright citizenship. It reads into the Fourteenth Amendment a sweeping right for foreign nationals that the text ...

This is the fourth of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born ...

The Justices issue four major rulings on executive power, voting law and the Fourth Amendment, with mixed majorities in each one. The Court says Donald Trump can fire the heads of independent agencies ...

In 1898, the same Supreme Court that upheld Jim Crow segregation as constitutional also upheld the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, by a 6–2 vote. This was a profoundly ...

The Missouri Republican’s claim puts a long-settled-sounding constitutional rule back into political play. The dispute turns on how far the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause reaches — and who gets ...

The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda Tuesday, ruling that his administration could not use an executive order to end birthright ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Zimmytws/Dreamstime.com) The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on birthright citizenship has produced the reaction everyone ...

Justice Samuel Alito expressed discontent with the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down the Trump administration’s restrictions on birthright citizenship, calling the ruling both “one of ...