The U.S. Supreme Court made a long-awaited ruling on birthright citizenship Tuesday, rejecting President Donald Trump’s ...

President Trump's executive order adopting a narrow understanding of birthright citizenship in order to exclude the American-born children of unauthorized immigrants and temporary visitors has ...

The 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause survived by the skin of its teeth.

The legal website Just Security maintains a “litigation tracker,” chronicling all the lawsuits filed against the second Trump Administration. On Wednesday morning, that tally stood at a hefty seven ...

The Supreme Court is preparing to hear Trump vs. Washington, a case that could redefine the constitutional meaning of birthright citizenship for the first time in more than a century. At issue is ...

"Birthright citizenship" refers to the constitutional right to citizenship at the time of birth. When someone has a constitutional right, the only way to take away that right is through a ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine who is an American did not get the quick rejection from the Supreme Court that many expected going into the April 1 oral arguments, but key ...

Bruce Lesley is incensed at one dimension of the debate about birthright citizenship that he says is being completely overlooked. "It's in the words: 'birth' right citizenship — this is about babies." ...

President Trump appeared in court, watching as members of the court’s conservative majority raised questions about his efforts to limit birthright citizenship. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from ...

The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has just published a symposium issue on the birthright citizenship debate. The focus of those contributions is on the original meaning of birthright ...