Perhaps the most controversial executive order President Trump has signed thus far is the one ending birthright citizenship, which was immediately challenged by several “blue” state attorney generals ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” aiming to narrow the application of birthright citizenship ...

In well over a century, nobody has seriously challenged the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens under the 14th Amendment, without regard to their parents’ ...

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship. That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court needs to make completely clear that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

President Donald Trump's recent executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children of non-citizen parents has faced immediate legal pushback. Multiple federal judges, including those ...

A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment was adopted. The finding appeared to undercut the president’s claims on ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...