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

Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, but that doesn't mean the Supreme Court can't find a way to render it obsolete ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

The Trump administration has taken the president's battle against birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants.to the ...

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

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford ...

1857—Chief Justice Taney’s ruling in Dred Scott marks the Supreme Court’s first use of the modern liberal judicial activist’s favorite tool—“substantive due process”—to invalidate ...

The premise of the Dred Scott case, per Chief Justice Roger ... It took a constitutional amendment to undo the damage by, as the Supreme Court said in Wong Kim Ark, placing it “beyond doubt ...

Dred and Harriet Scott filed freedom suits in the Old St. Louis Courthouse, fighting to break the chains of slavery. But after an 11-year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1857 that ...

When Congress was unable to reach an agreement, the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories in the infamous case of Dred Scott v.

In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court dismissed a freedom lawsuit by holding, among other things, that people of African descent were forever barred from American citizenship.