Readers react to an award for a law student’s essay claiming that the rights recognized in the Constitution apply only to white people. Also: Climate change.

High court’s decision fuels uncertainty about whether babies born to immigrants lacking legal immigration status will be ...

The modern problem of stopping Trump’s executive overreach requires 21st-century solutions. Instead, the Supreme Court handcuffed America to its past.

There was our guiding light: The 14th Amendment, passed 100 years earlier. It extended citizenship to all persons born on ...

The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to weigh in on transgender sports bans will put two conservative justices in the ...

The U.S. attorney asked to file an amicus brief defending Wyoming’s new law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

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The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but ...

The unraveling of the rule of law in the United States is almost complete. Not only is there evidence indicating that ...

“Allowing the president to unilaterally redefine who gets to be a U.S. citizen in states subject to Trump’s rewriting of the ...

Children of immigrants don’t take our citizenship for granted. We know what our parents sacrificed to make it happen. We are ...

Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.