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

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S. "On ...

President Donald Trump has signed a number of executive orders his first day of office — including one which seeks to strip certain newborns of their U.S. citizenship, effectively going against an ...

Executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 are being legally challenged by civil rights unions, ...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every ... the most important change in the Constitution since the Bill of Rights,” the historian Eric Foner told me. The amendment grants ...

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"—why does Trump wants to change it?

A Trump executive order that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents in the nation illegal faces a ...

The Washington Post described the order as an effort to “reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the Constitution ... of American citizens’ civil rights. You cannot simply blot out the Constitution.

Let’s set aside for a moment the questions of the legality and constitutionality of Trump’s action and ask instead: Where did ...