Fight over Trump's order to deny birthright citizenship heads toward Supreme Court, with 14th Amendment protections at stake ...

Bills include legislation that would require would-be voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering.

The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the ...

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

The simple answer is no. It's a position that has been backed up by several federal district courts.

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

In an 1898 ruling about the citizenship of a man born in the United States to Chinese parents, the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment, “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the ...