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

Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...

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

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 14th Amendment, which states adopted in 1868, says that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and ...

It is extremely difficult to change the U.S. Constitution. It is not simply waving a pen or a magic wand. The Constitution itself, in Article V, defines the process. For a proposal to become an ...

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

Trump is appealing to the justices to help facilitate his birthright citizenship plan, blocked by lower courts.

The intent of that clause in the 14th Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, was granting citizenship to freed slaves, annulling the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1858 Dred Scott decision, which ruled ...

Nor could it reflect the “original public meaning” of the 14th Amendment, when it was ratified in 1868, as claimed by Barnett and Wurman. The first significant federal immigration law was not ...