First, that the text of the amendment specifically limits birthright citizenship to “persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” — which ...

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President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship moved closer to law on Friday when the Supreme Court today ...

Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College and Julie Novkov, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) One of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders relating to ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a ...

"The court has essentially kneecapped lower courts from stopping this administration when it engages in lawless and ...

The testimony concluded a two-day evidentiary hearing over the law, known as SB 129, before U.S. District Judge R. David ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created.

"With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court ...

The newest justice has emerged as the court’s left-wing iconoclast, unafraid to break unwritten rules in challenging her conservative colleagues’ ideological project.

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of the lower courts to curtail the power of the president. We look at the court's end-of-term blockbuster decisions, as well as their implications.