The Wall Street Journal's editorial board has a plea to President Donald Trump: take the loss, and give up on your plan to eliminate birthright citizenship. The conservative paper's rebuke, which ...
A federal judge in Washington state dealt the first blow to President Donald Trump’s aspirations of rewriting the Constitution and throwing away a century-old legal precedent in his quest to eliminate ...
The first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...
UVA legal expert Amanda Frost explains the president’s executive order, the constitutional amendment he seeks to overturn and how it could play out in the courts.
Nevertheless, Trump’s order, labeled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” purports to deny citizenship ...
A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on ...
House Republicans are seeking to codify several executive orders signed by President Donald Trump over the last few days, with some lawmakers arguing that border security and birthright citizenship sh ...
A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
Falling in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled legislation that would amend federal immigration law to narrow the ...
Trump signed an order that aimed to end birthright citizenship. Over 20 democrat-led states and cities filed a total of five lawsuits that claim the order violates 14th Amendment rights. In an ...
America started doing so at the end of the civil war. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ...