The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

How the court handles the cases will be the strongest indicator yet of whether this court will check any administration ...

Trump’s executive order limits automatic birthright citizenship, traditionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment, to ...

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

Key specifics, including which types of immigrants would be subject to the new rules, have finally been made public.

A great deal has happened on the subject of birthright citizenship under President Trump, including an Executive Order redefining parts of ...

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

The U.S. debates birthright citizenship as a new Trump executive order seeks to deny automatic citizenship to children of non ...

A Supreme Court decision last month limiting the use of nationwide injunctions appeared to pave the way for President Donald ...

The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the ...

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...