The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the ...

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

How the court handles the cases will be the strongest indicator yet of whether this court will check any administration ...

Key specifics, including which types of immigrants would be subject to the new rules, have finally been made public.

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

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 ...

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.

Its first sentence sums up the citizenship right guaranteed at birth: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is," Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a ...

The Trump administration argues in the order that the 14th Amendment "has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not 'subject to the ...

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 ...