To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution
America started doing so at the end of the Civil War. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ensured that freed slaves and their children would henceforth be citizens.
Trump signed an executive order purporting to rewrite birthright citizenship. That's not how the Constitution works.
Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.
The lawsuits argue that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship for people born and naturalized in the U.S.
Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...
The 47th president pressed the point during litigation over his eligibility for office after Jan. 6. He was sworn in again on ...
Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...
The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be ...
President Donald Trump signed a bevy of executive orders within hours of taking the oath of office on Monday — including one ...
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