14th Amendment to the Constitution

Trump’s citizenship decree signals his willingness to flout the Constitution

Trump’s citizenship order is best understood as a symbolic stand against the “invasion” he perceives when people enter this country in pursuit of better lives.

The Economist · 11d

To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution

America started doing so at the end of the civil war. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ensured that freed slaves and their children would henceforth be citizens.

Newsweek on MSN · 10d

Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship? 14th Amendment Explained

Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has been interpreted, repeatedly, as an integral part of the 14th Amendment. Trump isn't the first to weaponize birthright citizenship but he has been the most successful at bringing this issue to a boil.

ABC News on MSN · 7h

Trump's order seeking to block birthright citizenship to face next legal hurdle

President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three separate judges hold hearings on the issue.

10don MSN

The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

12don MSN

What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in the 14th Amendment. We ...

The Palm Beach Post on MSN13d

Is birthright citizenship in the Constitution? Can Trump end it? 18 states sue

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Can Trump just change it? That ...

The Root on MSN7d

Trump Trying to Overturn the 14th Amendment Should Scare the Hell out of Every American

No U.S. president has ever gone after the 14th Amendment before, but Trump’s birthright citizenship attack isn’t the first time this amendment has been under fire. Ironically, 2025 marks 30 years ...

The Tennessean (Nashville) on MSN13d

What is birthright citizenship? Can Trump get rid of it? What to know about executive order

Why? Because birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution. Birthright citizenship grants automatic citizenship ...

9dOpinion

Trump Doesn’t Get to Decide What the Constitution Means

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

New York Daily News on MSN13dOpinion

The Constitution outranks all: Trump’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship is meaningless

Donald Trump yesterday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then promptly ...

12don MSNOpinion

The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

11d

What the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution says about birthright citizenship

Shortly after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump signed a host of executive orders, ...

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