Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship in the U.S., an interpretation the Trump admin. is fighting.

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging the president's birthright citizenship order on April 1.

(NEW YORK) -- When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the president's sweeping attempt to gut the Fourteenth ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement ...

Noted originalist scholar Michael Ramsey has a potentially important new paper on birthright citizenship: "Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined," forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review. This article ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement ...

U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri chaired a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday on birthright citizenship, as the issue remains part of a wider national legal and political ...

The debate over birthright citizenship is one of the most misunderstood constitutional questions in American law. Many claim that the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S.

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...