Birthright citizenship has exploded into the national discourse. The issue is generating a lot of heat on the Republican side of the aisle in particular, because it threatens to expose the long ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated. It may not be as oft-quoted as the First ...

The case marks the first time the justices are considering a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday evening targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of ...

Professor Jonathan Adler recently posted about a Washington Post opinion article by Robert George and Josh Craddock, which argued that Congress should legislate to enforce the equal protection ...

President Trump issued an executive order to strip U.S. citizenship from children born in the country to illegal immigrants, but the order was temporarily blocked by federal judges. The judges ...

Trump signed executive order to end birthright citizenship The 14th Amendment says 'all persons born in US' are citizens South Carolina AG says it's been misinterpreted The Supreme Court is ...

Civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill will head the project. On March 27, Howard University launched its 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, housed within Howard University’s ...

Howard University - the historically Black school here - opens a center today dedicated to the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War. It establishes ...

(NewsNation) — The Supreme Court is requesting responses from states and groups challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. About two dozen states have ...