In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The lawsuit challenges President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, which they say violates the ...

DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship ...

For Trump’s position on citizenship to triumph, he must amend the Constitution or get the Supreme Court to overrule a 117-year old precedent.” ...

Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

Put simply, under Trump’s order, the children of most undocumented immigrants wouldn’t be US citizens, nor would the children ...

The legal challenge underscores the historical roots of birthright citizenship, noting that the 14th Amendment was ratified ...

The Department of Justice is joining 17 states in suing the Trump administration for its order ending birthright citizenship.

President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship — the right of U.S.-born children of immigrants to be U.S. citizens, work, vote and avoid deportation — was immediately challenged Tuesday ...

Previous Supreme Court decisions, like Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857, had decided that African Americans could never be US citizens. The 14th Amendment overrode that. In 1898, the US Supreme Court ...