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

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

“The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on birthright,” Rosen says. “It is really important that it’s a vision of ...

Trump's controversial executive order on birthright citizenship will face its first legal test in a Seattle courtroom on ...

The lawsuit filed in Seattle has been progressing the fastest of the five cases brought over the executive order.

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 ...

The executive order is meant to limit birthright citizenship to children born to at least one U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident parent.

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

The case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union ... The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, overturning the Dred Scott decision that denied Black Americans the rights and protections of U.S.

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.