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

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

The justices offered few public remarks on birthright citizenship, but legal experts expect them to reject Trump's executive ...

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.

Attorney General Anne Lopez, with 18 other state attorneys general, has filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's ...

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 ...

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

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President Trump has signed an executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship. Here's what it means, and how the 14th Amendment is related.