A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment ...

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

And over the next year, the Court will face more cases that could further erode both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, ...

Supreme Court will hear appeal of lower court ruling that struck down the president's January executive order limiting automatic citizenship.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Trump's case on ending birthright citizenship for millions of children. Here's what it means.

One of President Trump's first actions in his second term was an Executive Order purporting to limit birthright citizenship ...

Both sides agree that to be granted birthright citizenship under the Constitution, a child must be born inside U.S. borders ...

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, 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 ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that.

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...