Over the years, the right to citizenship has been won by various oppressed or marginalized groups after hard-fought legal battles. Here's a look at how birthright citizenship has applied to some of ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

Sandford, which denied U.S. citizenship to Black people. “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of ...

The order, signed on Inauguration Day, could impact hundreds of thousands of people born in the country, according to one lawsuit.

Eighteen states have sued the federal government over the executive order, showing the legal challenges the president will ...

When the Trump administration seeks to have the injunction quashed, the litigation may eventually proceed, through the ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship is unambiguously and profoundly racist.

Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Trump ordered an end to birthright citizenship, the longstanding principle that any child born on U.S. soil is a natural-born ...

Let’s set aside for a moment the questions of the legality and constitutionality of Trump’s action and ask instead: Where did ...

“The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on birthright,” Rosen says. “It is really important that it’s a vision of ...