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

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

After a federal court ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, ...

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

A great deal has happened on the subject of birthright citizenship under President Trump, including an Executive Order ...

The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to many children of immigrants and some groups who had been in the United States longer than Europeans. Some Native Americans received citizenship ...

President Donald Trump's executive order has faced repeated roadblocks, but the administration continues appealing up to the Supreme Court.

The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" is key to the Supreme Court's forthcoming decision, and if the court follows the ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for issuing an executive order ...

President Donald Trump appeared to notch a victory in his fight to end birthright citizenship in the United States. But can he do it?

In a previous My Turn in the Monitor, I wrote that the birthright citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment “states a rule, not a principle.” It can be changed by constitutional amendment ...

The 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship rights to former slaves, states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction ...