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 ...

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.

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.” ...

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

In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no black of African descent (free or slave) could be a citizen of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to ...

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

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children ... and consequently his suit against Sandford was not a suit between citizens of different States, and the court had no authority ...

The group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of ...