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

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.

“Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship”—better known as the birthright citizenship executive order ...

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Full text is unavailable for this digitized ... that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri ...

Contrary to Trump’s assertion, many countries of the world follow this same approach and accord citizenship to anyone born ...

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 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 ...

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

He would need to amend the Constitution or get the Supreme Court to overrule a 117-year old precedent. | Opinion ...

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 ...

After the Civil War, Congress explicitly rejected the Dred Scott decision, first passing legislation ... Immigration raised further questions about the text of the 14th Amendment in the late ...