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

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an assault on Native rights.

President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

According to the Law Library of Congress, more than 30 countries across the world recognize birthright citizenship on an unrestricted basis – in which children born on their soil automatically ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined, rooted in the same constitutional principles and shaped by racial and ...

Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a person is born on U.S. soil, that person is a U.S. citizen regardless of ...

That was the verdict of the judge — and he’ll be the first of many — on President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate birthright citizenship, the long-standing practice of conferring U.S ...

While nearly two dozen states are suing to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, some legal experts, such as Hans ...