Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...

All the Trump Administration's arguments for denying birthright ctizenship to children of undocumented immigrants are at odds with the main purpose of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth ...

Let's begin with the constitutional text, here from section 1 of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 1 over whether to uphold birthright citizenship in the United States. Trump v. Barbara challenges President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, executive ...

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has joined a multi-state coalition defending birthright citizenship in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Jones joined the coalition in late February as ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has joined Iowa and 23 other states in filing a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States, urging the Court to reconsider ...