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

If a person is born in Ohio or anywhere else in the United States to anybody other than a foreign diplomat or a member of an ...

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 ...

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—and paved the way for today’s ...

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a challenge to New York firearms restrictions adopted shortly after the justices ...

which was used to keep former Confederates from holding government offices after the 14th Amendment's adoption in 1868. Illinois election officials to consider removing Trump from March primary ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”  –the 14th Amendment to the U.S.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

His automatic status as a newborn American citizen came courtesy of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 and overruled the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision that excluded U.S.-born ...

Lawyers for two different groups of states, as well as lawyers representing immigrants’ rights groups and several pregnant women, urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in place three orders by fe ...