The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even ...

Trump and now-Vice President J.D. Vance last summer repeated the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were stealing ...

News reached out to members of the Texas delegation to ask how they acquired citizenship and their position on limiting ...

The 14th Amendment has been called the cornerstone of civil rights in America, but in reality, it has become something entirely different: - A legal loophole for judicial activism. - A blank check for ...

Others extend that analysis to the laws in effect when the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause was ratified in 1868. This debate, though somewhat arcane, could have immense practical ...

The judges deemed the order a violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship ... was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, in 1868. It awarded citizenship rights to emancipated ...

What does the law say? Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868, soon after the Civil War. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof ...