A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment ...

In the United States, birthright citizenship was written into the Constitution after the Civil War. Following the end of ...

One of President Trump's first actions in his second term was an Executive Order purporting to limit birthright citizenship ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Both sides agree that to be granted birthright citizenship under the Constitution, a child must be born inside U.S. borders ...

Another January 6 has come and gone, and with it the furtive remembrances of the day that touched off so much institutional collapse. Not that you’d know anything was amiss in Washington, where ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

When the U.S. Supreme Court convenes on Thursday for an unusual May session, the only item on the calendar will involve President Trump’s executive order, which purports to exclude the children of ...

Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky lays out the history of U.S. citizenship and the 14th Amendment on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.' ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

What kind of law defines Fourteenth Amendment rights? The answer seems obvious. Section One of the Amendment confers federal constitutional rights: to "due process," to "equal protection," to the ...