The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens alike, “so long as they are permitted by the United States to ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

The Department of Justice recently argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to Native Americans. The administration ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

Precedent and the text make clear that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

US District Judge Leo Sorokin granted the request by attorneys generals from Massachusetts and 17 other states.

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of citizenship.

The Justice Department argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and doesn’t grant ...

A federal court judge in Boston has issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order calling ...