After Trump signed the executive order, which would deny citizenship to children born to migrants temporarily or illegally in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal defeat on Tuesday in his effort to curtail automatic birthright ...

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said there was no compelling reason to stay a lower court's ruling that the executive ...

We are pleased to see the court uphold the proper interpretation of the Citizenship Clause, and the message to those who would be impacted by the president’s executive order is clear: citizenship is a ...

and in a footnote it analogized the equal protection clause to the citizenship clause. And in 1985 the court commented in passing that an immigrant without legal residence had a child “who, born in ...

A lawsuit filed by four states in the Western District of Washington claims his action “is contrary to the plain terms of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.” Legal experts ...

It was the second time an appellate court has taken up Trump's order, whose fate may ultimately be decided by the Supreme ...

Leaving birthright citizenship to the Roberts court is walking into a minefield – legislation is the smarter route to end ...

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to anyone "born … in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The standard view of this provision is that ...

But the "subject to the jurisdiction" language of the Citizenship Clause refers to people subject to that jurisdiction at the time they were born. For example, the [US-born] child of a foreign ...