U.S. Rep. Greg Casar was born in Houston with something neither of his parents had: U.S. citizenship. His automatic status as ...

The justices usually order the other side in an emergency appeal to respond in a few days or a week. But in this case, they ...

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

Trump is requesting that court rulings in three different states be narrowed so that a judge’s order in one state can't ...

Trump is appealing to the justices to help facilitate his birthright citizenship plan, blocked by lower courts.

So far, no lower court has backed Trump in upholding the legality of his Jan. 20 executive order to scrap birthright citizenship for individuals born after Feb. 19 to illegal immigrants. The order ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention Thursday limiting lower court rulings that are blocking President Trump’s plans to restrict birthright ...

The Trump administration is taking its fight to nullify birthright citizenship to the U.S. Supreme Court. To date, every ...

Birthright citizenship was part of English common law and referred to as jus soli ("right of the soil"). Yes, in two notable cases. In 1898 the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark ...

In its request to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said it should clear the way for the president's birthright citizenship order to partially take effect. Harris, who represents the ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the United States. The order, which would stop the practice of granting ...