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

Trump signed an executive order purporting to rewrite birthright citizenship. That's not how the Constitution works.

A Trump executive order that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents in the nation illegal faces a ...

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a ...

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 ...

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.

Birthright citizenship, also known by the legal term jus soli – "right of the soil" in Latin – is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which rules that all persons born in the US ...

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 ...

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ... The Constitution's text reflects a basic American principle: Being born here comes with citizenship.

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