Supreme Court will hear appeal of lower court ruling that struck down the president's January executive order limiting ...

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

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...

The administration frames the dispute as a long-overdue "correction" to an overly generous citizenship regime, but the legal ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

The Supreme Court lifted lower court blocks on a presidential order ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants, but deferred ruling on the constitutionality of birthright ...

As constitutional turns of phrase go, the part of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship seems more straightforward than most: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide on the principle of birthright citizenship, which holds that all children born on US soil are American citizens. The principle of birthright ...

Alabama’s chief elections officer seems to despise democracy. Wes Allen has spent the vast majority of his public career making voting harder in Alabama. As a state representative, he sponsored a bill ...

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...