It is widely agreed that “subject to the jurisdiction” excluded the children of diplomats, Native Americans subject and with ...

The president's executive orders have already drawn dozens of legal challenges, including some that could make it to the U.S.

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

A federal judge in Seattle paused President Donald Trump’s order seeking to stop federal funding for gender-affirming care ...

The Associated Press' U.S. immigration news editor, Elliot Spagat, was joined by Rebecca Santana, who covers the Department ...

The courts may continue to intervene, as some already have, and it is likely that the administration will often lose in those ...

Trump’s executive orders and firings sparked lawsuits over presidential authority. Experts are saying he is renewing founding ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship as part of his hardline immigration ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state government as intermediary.

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