IT WAS AN APPALLING SPECTACLE without precedent in American history: the president of the United States sitting in the ...

A clear majority of the Supreme Court appeared to cast doubt on the idea that birthright citizenship should be struck down.

Birthright citizenship is the idea that children born in the United States are American citizens–with very limited exceptions ...

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Babies born in the United States have been deemed citizens under the Constitution and federal immigration law for 160 years.

We need to consider the need for a 28th Amendment to reaffirm the meaning of citizenship.

Readers debate whether the 14th Amendment confers U.S. citizenship on babies whose parents are in the U.S. illegally or ...

In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ...

"Birth tourism" is the practice of pregnant women traveling to the U.S. with the intention of giving birth and obtaining U.S.

But this also begs the question: why is this facially unconstitutional case before the court in the first place?

A wrong Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship could permanently alter American citizenship and entitle children to ...

There are few lines in the Constitution that are as straightforward as the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment: “All ...