Birthright citizenship is the idea that children born in the United States are American citizens–with very limited exceptions for the children of diplomats and occupying milita

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th Amendment acted as a correction to questions created by the 1857 Dred Scott decision,

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

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments challenging birthright citizenship, as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it pays to remember that a politician from Lancaster played a

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they reside. Simply put, the Citizenship Clause of the 14th ...

Oral arguments were heard Wednesday by the Supreme Court in a case that could change the interpretation of birthright citizenship.