The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over the legality of President Trump's executive order that seeks to end ...

Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship as we have known it. The court’s eventual ...

Ever since the Supreme Court recognized birthright citizenship in 1898, generations of Americans have accepted that the ...

On March 28, 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment grants citizenship by birth on U.S. soil.

Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.

An Argentine emigre in Florida quickly got her newborn son a U.S. passport last year. During a legal fight over President ...

An argument heading to the Supreme Court is built in part on a post-Civil War campaign that scholars say was steeped in ...

Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship for U.S.-born babies.

A Notre Dame professor and other scholars submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, warning against restricting ...