The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

The simple answer is no. It's a position that has been backed up by several federal district courts.

The judges seemed dubious about the executive order's constitutionality, but wondered whether the plaintiffs even have ...

Birthright citizenship is a moral commitment to the idea that the American Dream is not defined by bloodlines or borders, but ...

A federal appeals court appeared ready on Friday to become the second such court in the country to rule that President Donald ...

Appeals court to review Trump's birthright citizenship order after Supreme Court ruling narrowed lower courts' ability to issue universal injunctions.

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

How the court handles the cases will be the strongest indicator yet of whether this court will check any administration ...

It was recently revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees USCIS, was looking at changing the ...

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...