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

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

Birthright citizenship, also known by the legal term jus soli – "right of the soil" in Latin – is enshrined in the 14th ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from restricting who is eligible for automatic US citizenship ...

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night ending the right of birthright citizenship for children born to parents who aren't U.S. citizens, Marc Christopher ...

Pushback against President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration orders gathered steam Thursday with a court set to hear the first of a set of lawsuits filed by a coalition of at least 22 US states to ...