The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

The author says executive order stripping US citizenship from children born in this country, protected by the 14th Amendment, could imperil other constitutional amendments.

The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868, soon after the Civil War. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and ...

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect ...

The order, which Trump signed shortly after taking office in January, has been blocked by district judges in Maryland, ...

The Trump administration’s controversial push to restrict birthright citizenship is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up a historic legal battle that could alter the future ...

In one of his first acts as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending ...

The judges deemed the order a violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship ... was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, in 1868. It awarded citizenship rights to emancipated ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.