In the United States, as in Europe, the advent of national citizenship (as opposed to local citizenship) has mirrored and ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the order on Jan. 23, calling it blatantly unconstitutional. 22 states, including North Carolina, have challenged the executive order due to violating the ...

“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 question I expected came ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

A Seattle-based federal judge granted a request from the Washington Attorney General's Office for a temporary restraining order to delay an executive order that could reinterpret the rules of ...

One of the biggest issues of the new Trump term is birthright citizenship. The president is pushing back against it with an ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States ... The Supreme Court's support of a broad definition of birthright citizenship dates to 1898, in a ruling involving Wong Kim Ark, whose ...

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working very closely with one of our columnists, Carlos Lozada, on a series of ...

THE LAWSUIT SAYS THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER GOES DIRECTLY AGAINST THE 14TH AMENDMENT, WHICH SAYS ALL PERSONS BORN OR NATURALIZED ... CHANGE THE DEFINITION OF WHO BECOMES A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT.

The Constitution’s 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United ... the Court might determine that while the definition of citizenship can be legislatively changed to exclude ...