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

No U.S. president has ever gone after the 14th Amendment before, but Trump’s birthright citizenship attack isn’t the first ...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey defended President Donald Trump's opening volley of executive orders, saying he ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

In a 1939 opinion, the court noted an earlier example — the adoption of the 14th Amendment, for which three states had first rejected and later ratified and two states had ratified and later ...

When US President Donald Trump signed a recent executive order that would deny citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants living in the United States, he took aim at what he suggested was ...

In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ...