While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating ...

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments challenging birthright citizenship, as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it pays to remember that a politician from Lancaster played a ...

It’s not who you are, or where you came from; it was whether you believed in and accepted the very notion of what it meant to ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

President Trump's executive order limiting birth right citizenship afforded in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment is ...

One was his first-day executive order claiming to eliminate birthright citizenship, a core constitutional principle enshrined ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...