The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

The Trump administration is struggling to defend its executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship. Four different federal judges have now blocked the executive branch from carrying it ...

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s ...

In 1857, in one of the most shameful and racist judicial decisions in our history, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected this right in Dred Scott v. Sanford, denying citizenship to the descendants of ...

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s ...

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s executive order described both birthright citizenship’s history and its purp ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

The attorneys general were preparing to go into the first hearing in Massachusetts District Court regarding the lawsuit ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The Trump directive recalls the era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision that said Black people could not be citizens. That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War ...