Two law professor argued in a guest essay for The New York Times that President Donald Trump may hold a strong case on the ...

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

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

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

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

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

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

President Donald Trump’s executive order to end so-called birthright citizenship for babies of undocumented immigrants was ...

Two Venezuelan asylum seekers, who joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration, discuss their fears and hopes in ...

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

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed African American slaves; its birthright citizenship clause has since been ...