After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.

Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are ...

The United States Supreme Court is in the midst of a term that includes several high-profile cases on issues including ...

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that anyone born on American soil is a citizen—has deep roots in English common law and ...

A wide range of cases challenging Donald Trump's actions have landed on the Supreme Court's docket in the past year. Here's what to know ...

The first year of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House was defined by clashes with the judiciary branch, as the ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. From the moment President Donald Trump issued his executive order on birthright ...

At least four U.S. Supreme Court justices recently signaled their apparent agreement with Donald Trump’s effort to roll back the Fourteenth Amendment’s definition of American citizenship. The case at ...

The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month.