When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any ...

Both sides agree that to be granted birthright citizenship under the Constitution, a child must be born inside U.S. borders ...

The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on May 15 regarding Donald Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship. This is the first major legal challenge to the constitutional right in ...

At least four Supreme Court justices recently signaled their apparent agreement with Donald Trump’s effort to roll back the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Trump's case on ending birthright citizenship for millions of children. Here's what it means ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday justices will hear a case to decide if President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright ...

Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...