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 ...

Should babies born in the United States to parents without legal residency here automatically become U.S. citizens, as they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As President Donald Trump attended the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw on Friday, Dec. 5, the Supreme Court said that it would hear an ...

Foundlings – babies born of unknown parentage – loomed large in the imagination of mid-19th century Americans, who dutifully ...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 1 in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United ...

The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has just published a symposium issue on the birthright citizenship debate. The focus of those contributions is on the original meaning of birthright ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up two cases this term that will affect so many in the country. They are looking at President Donald Trump's push to end birthright citizenship as he wants to make ...

As President Donald Trump attended the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw on Friday, Dec. 5, the Supreme Court said that it would hear an appeal in a case that would determine if Trump could end birthright ...