Following the Civil War and between 1865 and 1870, Congress passed Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14 and 15) to establish a new order or reconstruct laws to provide for equal freedoms and rights for ...

The author says that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, understood according to its original public meaning, obviously guarantees birthright citizenship.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday, May 15 over President Donald Trump's bid to follow through with an executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship in the first broad ...

House Republicans are rallying around a new bill intended to codify President Donald Trump's executive order to limit birthright citizenship. Trump's order targeting the Constitution's 14th Amendment ...

One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the United States adopted a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, one of the American bedrocks of equality. Now, that ...

In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United States ...

I’m not a lawyer; maybe that helps me understand the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship better than J. Christian Adams (“Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is wrong,” April 22).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said the president’s executive order violates the 14th Amendment. A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order to ...

While nearly two dozen states are suing to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, some legal experts, such as Hans von ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The order itself goes into effect in 30 days, and specifically prohibits federal ...