America First Legal filed two amicus briefs this week in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending ...

The preliminary injunction is the second temporary hold against Trump’s executive order and puts efforts to end birthright ...

Prof. Richard Epstein replies to our Politics & Ideas columnist.

Eighteen states have sued the federal government over the executive order, showing the legal challenges the president will ...

Trump's inauguration week order had already been on temporary hold nationally because of a separate suit, where a judge ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday evening targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country illegally, contrary to the 14th Amendment.

President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, including a long-promised attempt to end ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , reports ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

And another, the 14th Amendment written by Ohio Congressman ... which states the president must be a “natural born Citizen.” If the president could be a natural-born citizen, Black activists ...

anyone born on American territory, no matter their national origin, ethnicity, or station in life, is an American citizen. Instead, the Fourteenth Amendment’s framers sought to correct the most ...