Immigrant groups and Democratic states pushed back on a Trump administration request for the Supreme Court to allow curbs on ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court litigates Trump's move to revoke birthright citizenship, the story of one San Francisco native is ...

Many thanks to Prof. Evan Bernick for his insightful guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship over the past week. For convenience, here are links to all of his posts, gathered in one place: 1.

A coalition of Democratic-led states and immigrant rights groups is urging the Supreme Court to preserve birthright citizenship and uphold a nationwide block on a Trump administration order ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the same day he signed an order that would restrict who is eligible for birthright citizenship. California ...

The U.S. solicitor general's office requested that the orders only remain in place as to the individuals who brought the lawsuits, which would leave Trump’s denial of birthright citizenship in ...

The United States is one of 30 countries, including Canada and Mexico, that offer virtually automatic citizenship to everyone born within their borders. The concept of birthright citizenship was ...

The 14th Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the ‘jurisdiction thereof’.” Unfortunately, the executive ...