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

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.

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"—why does Trump wants to change it?

Trump's executive order interprets the law in his favor, but with lawsuits already pending, legal experts have been skeptical ...

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

the action of the private person is “state action” under the Fourteenth Amendment. United States v. Guest. See also Dennis v. Sparks (1980). In the other white primary case, an all-white club ...

A Trump executive order that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents in the nation illegal faces a ...

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The first clause of the 14th Amendment provides that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...