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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

For the purpose of this discussion — which will be guided not by nativist outrage but by common sense —”it” shall be defined ...

Critics of President-elect Donald Trump have taken to the streets of Washington, D.C., to urge Congress to block him from taking power, citing the 14th Amendment.

All persons born … in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the ...