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

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

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is ...

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

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

The simple answer is no. It's a position that has been backed up by several federal district courts.

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

In an 1898 ruling about the citizenship of a man born in the United States to Chinese parents, the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment, “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the ...

Each year, tens of thousands of pregnant women travel to the United States just to give birth. It’s what’s called Birth ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

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 ...