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

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship -- the idea that all ...

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship — the idea that all children born in the United States have the same rights, regardless of ...

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's opponents.

The principle was upheld by the 1898 Supreme Court case United States vs Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that children born in the US are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

Citing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which denied citizenship to Chinese immigrants, they told him he was not, in fact, a citizen of the United States. Today, the story of Wong Kim Ark, whose epic ...

No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.

Native Americans born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot detain or deport them for immigration violations. Since ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign to end birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants faces a huge legal obstacle: the Supreme Court’s 126-year-old ruling, in a case from ...

The real legal precedent, reinforced by the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), affirms that the 14th Amendment applies to all children born on U.S. soil, regardless of their ...

Wong Kim Ark has been misconstrued and therefore is not controlling. The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...

A federal judge in New Hampshire granted a preliminary injunction against an executive order that would end birthright ...