Trump and now-Vice President J.D. Vance last summer repeated the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were stealing ...

"Many aspects of constitutional interpretation are hotly debated, but not the merits question in this case," the Friday ...

Lawyers for two different groups of states, as well as lawyers representing immigrants’ rights groups and several pregnant women, urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in place three orders by fe ...

Democratic states, pregnant immigrant women and advocacy groups are defending court orders blocking Trump's controversial executive order against birthright citizenship.

Napoli & Shkolnik indicates it could appeal a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit alleging former New York Gov. Andrew ...

The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

Republican Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading a legal brief in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ...

The 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the ...

One of Donald Trump’s executive orders establishes an official administrative interpretation of the citizenship language of the Fourteenth Amendment. The question centers on the right of “birth ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University School of Law, about the opening the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”  –the 14th Amendment to the U.S.