Trump’s order targeting the Constitution’s 14th Amendment was hit with several legal challenges by Democratic attorneys general and was blocked by a federal judge Thursday afternoon. However, the ...

Over 20 democrat-led states and cities filed a total of five lawsuits that claim the order violates 14th Amendment rights. In an interview Wednesday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, told KTVO ...

The first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

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

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.

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

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 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 ...

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

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