Deadline: White House” legal analyst Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump administration ...

A federal appellate court is weighing whether to allow President Trump to end the constitutional guarantee to birthright ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma ...

But birthright citizenship is ultimately an American ideal. That is, all of the Americas. Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship to children born in its ...

On the day of his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American ... declaring that birthright citizenship does ...

The Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of Chinese immigrants.

A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright ...

The 14th Amendment did not always guarantee birthright citizenship to all U.S.-born people. Congress did not authorize citizenship for all Native Americans born in the United States, for instance ...

June 2 marked one century since then-President Calvin Coolidge signed a law granting American citizenship to Native Americans. Women had secured the right to vote four years earlier under the 19th ...

The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration's emergency ...