Legal scholars Amy Swearer and Hans von Spakovsky challenge birthright citizenship, arguing 14th Amendment excludes children ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

In the United States, birthright citizenship was written into the Constitution after the Civil War. Following the end of ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment ...

Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship outside of the Supreme Court in Washington in May. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin AP On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025 ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that all individuals born on U.S. soil are granted American citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment—was at the center of arguments heard by the Supreme Court ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...