President Donald Trump issued 51 executive orders this week. From halting diversity programs throughout the federal ...

The 14th Amendment and court precedent run counter to the president’s order.

When Justice Douglas asked the government lawyer if the phrase "no law" in the First Amendment literally means no law, he was unable to answer. The court found his mumbo jumbo reasoning so telling ...

Efforts to impeach Donald Trump for a third time are ramping up as he begins his second term as president. Newsweek has ...

President Donald Trump this week issued an unprecedented array of troubling executive orders including a move to end a ...

Over the years, the right to citizenship has been won by various oppressed or marginalized groups after hard-fought legal battles. Here's a look at how birthright citizenship has applied to some of ...

The justices said Friday they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a charter school.

Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally has faced the first of what will be many legal tests. It ...

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

When Wong Ark Kim made his way back to San Francisco, he was in his 20s, and he was denied entry into the country he was born in. He was told he wasn't a citizen.

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional." ...