High court’s decision fuels uncertainty about whether babies born to immigrants lacking legal immigration status will be ...

"Children born in the United States are protected by the Citizenship Clause." The post 'Children born on US soil are citizens ...

Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

Former President Trump reignited the debate over birthright citizenship with a proposal that could challenge the 14th ...

I’m not a lawyer; maybe that helps me understand the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship better than J. Christian Adams (“ Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is wrong ...

The amendment was a direct response to the 1857 Dred Scott decision where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people of African descent were not included in the definition of 'citizen'.

And they do so for a very specific reason, and that is to manipulate the Constitution to fit into their designed ideological agenda. And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.

The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship Reinterpretations of the act to grant rights to those freed from slavery have involved slaughterhouses, unions, train cars ...

In 1898, 30 years after the 14th Amendment was adopted, the Supreme Court reached a defining decision in a case known as the United States v. Wong Kim Ark. Lee explains that Wong Kim Ark was the ...

In order to better understand this part of the 14th Amendment, we turned to a pair of experts in constitutional and immigration law: Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution ...