The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

How the court handles the cases will be the strongest indicator yet of whether this court will check any administration ...

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for issuing an executive order ...

The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit brings the White House’s theory of citizenship closer to a ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...

In an 1898 ruling about the citizenship of a man born in the United States to Chinese parents, the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment, “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the ...

The president's reading of the 14th Amendment is contradicted by its text and history, plus 127 years of Supreme Court ...

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.