South Carolina is one of 18 states that joined a Supreme Court brief supporting an executive order to end birthright ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to undo lower court rulings blocking his bid to end birthright citizenship.

The Fourteenth Amendment represented a great expansion ... but that challenge was blocked by the Courts." Read the full text ...

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that “when the right ... is that the Southern newspapers in 1868 correctly read the ...

That decree, which contradicted the text of the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent, ran into legal trouble three days later, when John Coughenour, a federal judge in Washington ...

Can you talk about the origins of the text of the 14th Amendment—which is at the heart of arguments guaranteeing birthright citizenship—as a product of the post-Civil War moment and a reaction ...

And beyond that, nothing in the text says that’s a limit. If U.S. law in 1868, when we ratified the 14th Amendment, already held that children born to people in the U.S. as tourists or on a ...