The U.S. "should not reward illegal entry into our country with automatic citizenship for the children of lawbreakers,” Rep.

Every court which has ruled on President Trump’s executive order concerning birthright citizenship has found it ...

He recently retired as a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School. Question: What is the status of Trump's ...

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in ...

Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.

A judge has blocked President Donald Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship from taking effect anywhere in the ...

CASA, was a legal landmark, but the liberal Justices lamented in dissent as if it were the end of the rule of law. While the ...

Born on Manhattan’s Delancey Street and raised in the Bronx, my great-aunt Libby lost her birthright citizenship at age 20 ...

In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, ...

In last month’s decision limiting one judicial tool, universal injunctions, the court seemed to invite lower courts to use ...

What Is the History of Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.? The 14th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, in the aftermath of the Civil War.

From 1898 until 2025, birthright citizenship has been settled constitutional law in America. While we should debate amending the Constitution to address immigration, the Supreme Court should ...