In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions ...

But this modern understanding of “birthright citizenship” isn’t what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended — and ...

Ronald Allen, a Northwestern Law School Professor, joins Karen Conti to discuss two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that were ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a major decision scaling back the power of federal judges to block presidential ...

Effective immediately, the Trump administration can begin planning for how it would implement an end to birthright ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in a birthright citizenship case, handed down on Friday, has ramifications way beyond President Trump. The big, long-term impact is the granting of greater leeway to ...

Wong Kim Ark was not the only Chinese American San Franciscan — or even the first — to shape a fundamental part of the 14th Amendment. The San Francisco cook’s late 19th-century struggle ...

But the 14th Amendment never envisioned this reality. Section 1, with its promise of civil equality, was written to obliterate laws that applied disproportionately to one race.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes new filings to the Supreme Court as it prepares to hear oral arguments in Donald Trump’s challenge of a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that found he ...

Hi Ed, The answer lies in history, context and the fact that birthright citizenship isn’t based on parental allegiance. At the time of the 14th Amendment in the late 1860s, Native American ...

White House: birthright citizenship is dependent on the parents’ status. Eric McArthur, a deputy assistant attorney general, defended Trump’s executive order by pointing to the writings and debates of ...