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

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

A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive orders.

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

Prime Minister François Bayrou said that a debate on restricting birthright citizenship would be 'too narrow' and the broader ...

A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive ...

The injunction issued Thursday by a judge in Seattle came a day after another injunction stemming from a lawsuit in Maryland.

President Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship in the United States. What is it, which other countries apply the policy and who would be affected by the order?

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman said Trump’s executive order 'contradicts 125-year old binding Supreme Court precedent ...

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end ...

Johnson previously said at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is in the "minority" of countries that grant birthright citizenship ...