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

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

Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are ...

Whether or not the Trump administration has found a loophole in Wong Kim Ark, the court decided this issue with some finality ...

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a ...

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

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. From the moment President Donald Trump issued his executive order on birthright ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United ...

The ratifiers of the 14th Amendment could not have contemplated excluding the children of unlawful entrants, because the concept did not yet exist in 1868.

At least four U.S. Supreme Court justices recently signaled their apparent agreement with Donald Trump’s effort to roll back the Fourteenth Amendment’s definition of American citizenship. The case at ...