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 ...

Four Democratic-led states will urge a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday to block U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

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 ...

SEATTLE >> Four Democratic-led states will urge a federal judge in Seattle today to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing the Republican’s executive order curtailing the ...

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 ...

Dred Scott was enslaved trying to fight his way to freedom as the Civil War came to *** close with ... This landmark decision helped clearly define the Supreme Court's interpretation of ...