If a person is born in Ohio or anywhere else in the United States to anybody other than a foreign diplomat or a member of an ...

U.S. Rep. Greg Casar was born in Houston with something neither of his parents had: U.S. citizenship. His automatic status as ...

The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even as legal battles continue over President Donald Trump’s orders to end what ...

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 ...

ruling the order unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The amendment, passed in 1868, explicitly grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...

Louisiana's legislature in January 2024 approved a new map featuring two Black-majority districts. Later that month, a group ...

Others extend that analysis to the laws in effect when the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause was ratified in 1868. This debate, though somewhat arcane, could have immense practical ...

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 ...

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

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 ...