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 ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship by reinterpreting the 14th Amendment. This is the first time ...

After SCOTUS opened the door to President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the anniversary of the 14th Amendment takes on an added significance. The anniversary of the ratification of the ...

The ratifiers of the 14th Amendment could not have contemplated excluding the children of unlawful entrants, because the ...

President Donald Trump's executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship for millions of U.S.-born children is an insult to the text, history, and original public meaning of the ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...