SPRINGFIELD – Illinois participated in one court battle with the Trump administration Thursday when a federal judge ...

President Donald Trump has claimed virtually unfettered power over the executive branch in the early days of his second term, setting off a firestorm of litigation likely to reach the U.S. Supreme ...

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship -- the idea that all ...

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s ...

In one of his first acts upon reentering the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending universal ...

Trump's order aims to correct misinterpretation of 14th Amendment, ensuring citizenship isn't automatic for illegal immigrants' children.

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's opponents.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday said it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling blocking the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for people whose ...

In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For the third time, a federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting birthright citizenship. Among the plaintiffs in this latest challenge is ...