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

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

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

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin is the fourth federal judge to block President Trump's executive order seeking to end ...

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

The US has historically given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the norm ...

Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.

Joseph N. Laplante, chief judge for the federal district court in New Hampshire, said he was not persuaded by arguments an ...

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante agreed to grant a preliminary injunction sought by immigrant-rights groups.

Precedent and the text make clear that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens alike, “so long as they are permitted by the United States to ...

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