Trump's sweeping executive actions challenge legal boundaries, sparking constitutional concerns and court battles.

Courts have affirmed the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship since 1898, in the case of a San Francisco man ...

There are at least 5 million children in America who have received citizenship inappropriately, or about 1 in 8 U.S. births. That works well for those who relentlessly seek ways to produce millions of ...

The Department of Justice later said in a statement that it will “vigorously defend” the president’s executive order, which it said “correctly interprets the 14th Amendment of the U.S ...

“The executive order conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citi ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning birthright citizenship, which is allowed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Presidents cannot undo the Constitution with an ...

His parents were merchants who were living in the country legally. As a result of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified just a few years earlier, he was by virtue of birth an American ...

This has been the practice only since the 1960s and is based on what some believe is a flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which reads that "all persons born or naturalized in the United ...

Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal by executive fiat the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment, which the ruling class today ...

He is already seeking to transform the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment. Is there any reason to think he wouldn’t try something similar with the term limits provision of ...

Mr. Trump’s position is that the children of such noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and thus aren’t covered by the 14th Amendment’s longstanding ...