Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

The court has, for years now, deliberately avoided announcing hard-and-fast rules about the scope of injunctions that federal ...

Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.

Former Cabinet Minister Raphael Tuju has sparked a fresh debate over the integrity of the Supreme Court of Kenya (SCoK) ...

Birthright citizenship was enshrined in the Constitution after the Civil War to repudiate Dred Scott v. Sanford, the 1857 Supreme Court decision that legalized slavery and denied the legality of Black ...

Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive ...

Tuju's letter also touches on broader concerns about the state of Kenya's judiciary and the potential for the country to ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has asked the justices to largely reinstate his executive order ending birthright ...

“Common law doctrine [of citizenship by birth] was the law of the land until it was erroneously rejected by the Supreme Court in its 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.

After multiple judges in separate cases across the country blocked the order from going into effect and appeals courts declined to lift those holds, Trump's Justice Department went back to the Supreme ...

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which held that Scott, an enslaved man ...