President Trump's executive order adopting a narrow understanding of birthright citizenship in order to exclude the American-born children of unauthorized immigrants and temporary visitors has ...

Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation (May 2023). Follow him @joshuamzeitz. “All persons born or ...

(The Center Square) – America First Legal is leading the charge for the United States to return to the "original meaning" of the Fourteenth Amendment, meaning that children born to illegal aliens in ...

The Trump administration recently asked the Supreme Court to review two lower court rulings that struck down its executive order on birthright citizenship. This is not in and of itself surprising.

Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship outside of the Supreme Court in Washington in May. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin AP On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025 ...

The Supreme Court recently allowed Donald Trump to edge closer to ending Birthright Citizenship as outlined in the Fourteenth Amendment. SCOTUS didn’t weigh in on the merits of the case before them, ...

As constitutional turns of phrase go, the part of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship seems more straightforward than most: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...

Overview: John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of ...