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

President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship is unambiguously and profoundly racist. We can conclude only that this is the whole point.

Most legal experts say the Constitution grants citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants.

John McLean was the first Ohioan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and he’s been called a complex justice. He was the only committed opponent to slavery on the court before the Civil War. Yet he ...

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

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 ...

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

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney's unjust majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford shockingly declared Black individuals weren't citizens, solidifying slavery's grip and pushing the nation ...

Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship faces a tough legal battle, but could have a major impact if enacted.

The executive order is meant to limit birthright citizenship to children born to at least one U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident parent.