The adventures of Jacob and his children have served as a throughline in the genesis of America – from abolition to ...

Whether or not the Trump administration has found a loophole in Wong Kim Ark, the court decided this issue with some finality ...

The hearing on birthright citizenship is a tactic of the wealthy that could leave the birthright citizenship of all nonwhites ...

On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews legal scholar Amanda Frost on her latest research on the original meaning of the Constitution's citizenship clause, which ...

In 1830, the US Supreme Court determined that despite having been born in New York City in the 1770s, Anglican Bishop John Inglis of Nova Scotia was not a US citizen and therefore not eligible to ...

A new study further undermines revisionist claims about birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, noting a dog that did not bark. One of President Trump's first actions in his second term ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement ...

The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month.

Dec. 15 − To the Editor: Your letter-writer’s last name is O’Rourke ("Ban birthright citizenship"). I’m thinking that would mean an Irish ancestry. That means that many years ago someone by that name ...

Most people think being born on U.S. soil automatically makes you American. But that’s not always true. A handful of strange legal loopholes can cancel out birthright citizenship entirely. Today we’re ...