Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified. - Black activists championed the idea of birthright ...

After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.

No president has the authority to erase the civil protections of a constitutional amendment. But that didn’t stop 24 state attorneys general — including Indiana’s Todd Rokita — from asking the U.S.

President Donald Trump told Politico that it would be “devastating” if the Supreme Court struck down his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In a wide-ranging interview with ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that anyone born on American soil is a citizen—has deep roots in English common law and ...

A federal appeals court on Friday dealt a major setback to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, ruling that his executive order to end birthright citizenship violates the Constitution and ...

The Trump administration in June filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, a move that could redefine a ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the timing of Justice Clarence Thomas' Sept. 25 speech with respect to the Justice Department's appeal. The appeal was the next day. The ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

The United States Supreme Court is in the midst of a term that includes several high-profile cases on issues including ...