We know that it means the children of former slaves are citizens. That was its stated purpose and the plain language of the ...

Leaving birthright citizenship to the Roberts court is walking into a minefield – legislation is the smarter route to end ...

By its own terms, the 14th Amendment applies to “all persons” born in the United States, disqualifying no one by parentage.

Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...

President Donald Trump's signing of an executive order that would bar some children born in the United States from claiming ...

An appeals court last week also declined the Trump administration’s request to partially revive the president’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

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The legality of President Donald Trump’s ban on automatic birthright citizenship hinges on a single phrase in the 14th ...

Our political class is aflame, and our lawyer-ocracy is up in arms over President Trump’s executive order limiting the scope ...

Most disapprove of President Trump's push to end birthright citizenship but favor other moves aimed at immigrants here ...

The concept of birthright citizenship is clearly defined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, our nation’s most fundamental legal document. Everyone born in the United States is automatically a ...