Commentary: It’s intolerable that the Supreme Court should consider reopening an issue it took a Civil War to resolve.

Legal scholars Amy Swearer and Hans von Spakovsky challenge birthright citizenship, arguing 14th Amendment excludes children ...

The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on May 15 regarding Donald Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship. This is the first major legal challenge to the constitutional right in ...

In the United States, birthright citizenship was written into the Constitution after the Civil War. Following the end of ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

The 14th Amendment, passed by Congress in June 1866 and ratified in July 1868, starts by declaring "All persons born or naturalized in the United States ... are citizens of the United States and of ...

Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage’s annual Constitution Day program, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.