Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...
President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...
Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.
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 ...
Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive ...
It is extremely difficult to change the U.S. Constitution. It is not simply waving a pen or a magic wand. The Constitution itself, in Article V, defines the process. For a proposal to become an ...
In 1846, 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 ...
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 ...
Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, but that doesn't mean the Supreme Court can't find a way to render it obsolete ...