The U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case in 2026 challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to end birthright citizenship. Trump v. Barbara challenges Trump’s executive order that denies ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

The 14th Amendment, passed by Congress in June 1866 and ratified in July 1868, starts by declaring "All persons born or naturalized in the United States ... are citizens of the United States and of ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next month over President Donald Trump's efforts to enforce his executive order limiting birthright citizenship and maintaining his hardline approach toward ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

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,” April 22).

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship, known as “birthright citizenship,” for children born in the United States to two non ...

Civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill will head the project. On March 27, Howard University launched its 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, housed within Howard University’s Law ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday, May 15 over President Donald Trump's bid to follow through with an executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship in the first broad ...