The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

A federal appeals court appeared ready on Friday to become the second such court in the country to rule that President Donald ...

Appeals court to review Trump's birthright citizenship order after Supreme Court ruling narrowed lower courts' ability to issue universal injunctions.

Birthright citizenship is a moral commitment to the idea that the American Dream is not defined by bloodlines or borders, but ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship appeared on Friday to be headed toward being declared ...

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states, simply: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...