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

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

US District Judge Leo Sorokin granted the request by attorneys generals from Massachusetts and 17 other states.

President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

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

The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead ...

The Justice Department argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and doesn’t grant ...

President Donald Trump’s administration says it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that blocks the president’s ...

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of citizenship.

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald Trump's executive order.

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

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