We know that it means the children of former slaves are citizens. That was its stated purpose and the plain language of the ...

Donald Trump took the fight over his attempt to restrict automatic U.S. birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Republican president's administration asked the justices to ...

President signed huge stack of orders on first day in office covering everything from national security to paper straws and has shown no sign of slowing down ...

A third appellate court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship. The ...

President Donald Trump’s stalled attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship has done little to slow the popular practice of ...

Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow birthright citizenship restrictions to partly take effect.

The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's request for an order ...

Both the Supreme Court and Congress have allowed the plain language of the amendment to go unchallenged since the court’s ...

A U.S. appeals court has denied Donald Trump’s bid to end automatic birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants born in the nation. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

If the court ruled that birthright citizenship is constitutionally protected, then only a constitutional amendment could change that. The process requires approval by two-thirds of both the U.S ...

Trump’s order would align U.S. policy with much of the developed world, including the European ... 33 nations that embrace what’s called birthright citizenship are North and South American ...