Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...

Native Americans born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot detain or deport them for immigration violations. Since ...

It is bleak and I think in a lot of ways these are fights we’ve already fought, but we are also seeing new and scarier things ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Johnson previously said at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is in the "minority" of countries that grant birthright citizenship ...

The current injunction has put the executive order on hold until the merits of the case are resolved, barring a successful ...

It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and equal rights protection to people recently freed from slavery — that ...

Before the Civil War, states didn’t necessarily have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence of the ...