Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

A bill introduced by a House Republican requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when they register to ...

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

The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead ...

The SAVE Act aims to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of US citizenship for voting ...

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

America First Legal filed two amicus briefs this week in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending ...

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

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

Trump’s controversial executive order looks to deny citizenship to children born to noncitizens. The order has been ...

Donald Trump’s plan to end the constitutionally protected right of children born in the United States to American citizenship has produced collective pearl-clutching across cosmopolitan Washington.

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