The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens ...

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

Wong Kim Ark’s victory in the Supreme Court in 1898 affirmed the constitutional guarantee of automatic citizenship for nearly all children born in the United States.Credit...National Archives ...

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

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

In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

The high court held in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) that the U.S.-born child of foreigners lawfully and permanently domiciled in the country was a natural-born citizen. It didn’t rule on the ...

Advertisement The very next day, 22 attorneys general from Democrat-run states ... United States -- a reality made clear by the history surrounding the oft-cited, and often misinterpreted, Wong ...

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship — the idea that ...

The DOJ argues that the high court's 1898 decision in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark has been ... s citizenship clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject ...

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.