Automatic citizenship for people born in the United States is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who ...

Congress has the right to block President-elect Donald Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act immediately. It is reported by The Hill.

Some will argue that the Supreme Court decision in the Colorado case, Trump v. Anderson, precludes Congress from rejecting ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship. But that goal is in tension with the Constitution, and an executive order ...

Opinion columnists at The Hill called on Congress to block President-elect Trump from taking office on the basis of 14th ...

A politically powerful opponent of birthright citizenship railed that the United States cannot “give up the right” to “expel” ...

The Supreme Court was asked to determine whether Wong had become a U.S. citizen at birth "by virtue of the first clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution," which says: "All persons born or ...

They claim this is the case because the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires it. In reality, the legislative history of the 14th Amendment is clear that it only grants birthright ...

Paramount to this identity is the principle of jus soli, or birthright citizenship, established in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your ...

The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president. This is the plain wording of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. “No person shall ...