Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide ...

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

Birthright citizenship grants nationality based on place of birth. In Africa, most countries impose restrictions, requiring at least ...

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has filed a series of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to allow him to proceed with plans to end birthright citizenship ...

Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...

Black conventions throughout the 19th century served as platforms for advocating for equal citizenship rights for African Americans. The 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship ...

Adam Freelander is the senior audience video editor on the Vox video team and covers the US. On the first day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, he signed an executive order about an ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship ... and immunities of citizenship — to African Americans newly freed after ...

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.

William Galston makes several errors in his column “In Defense of Birthright Citizenship ... laws are hereby extended to aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent ...

Trump had claimed that the United States, where the right was in force for more than 150 years, was the only country in the world to give birthright ... of the parents. In Africa, five countries ...