Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated. It may not be as oft-quoted as the First ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

President-elect Donald Trump again expressed his desire to end birthright citizenship through executive action in his first network news interview since winning the election. "The 14th Amendment ...

When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action in college admissions one year ago has opened the door for numerous legal challenges against race-based grant programs, internships and ...

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...

In well over a century, nobody has seriously challenged the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens under the 14th Amendment, without regard to their parents’ ...