While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal ...

The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed African American slaves; its birthright citizenship clause has since ...

Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (KHOLOOD EID FOR WSJ) Immigration rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the Trump ...

Trump’s order is called "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." He’s ridiculed birthright citizenship, saying "it’s ridiculous." The order would also end automatic ...

“Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is," Romero added. "This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American ...

President-elect Donald Trump will sign 10 immigration-related executive orders soon after he is sworn in that would end recognition of automatic birthright citizenship, send troops to the border ...