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,

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal protections for Black people in the U.S. after slavery was abolished. What lawmakers intended it to do for immigrants is one central debate in the birthright citizenship case.

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

Solicitor General John Sauer responded to a question from Chief Justice John Roberts, during oral arguments on Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship on Wednesday, about the scope of the key phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case involving President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, putting the 14th Amendment back in the legal spotlight. The