More than 22 U.S. states and immigrants' rights groups sued the Trump administration to block the birthright citizenship ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, birthright citizenship is not entirely settled U.S. law. The executive order states, “the ...

Earlier this year President Trump signed an executive order which seeks to restrict this right, which was established by the 14th Amendment in 1868. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday (May ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide ...

WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court takes up President Trump's push to end birthright citizenship today, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that less than a third of all Americans want to drop the ...

The Trump administration through an executive order would make ancestry (with at least one parent a citizen or a legal U.S. resident) a criterion for citizenship. This goes against more than a ...

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown on Wednesday said he expects the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme ...

A federal appellate court is weighing whether to allow President Trump to end the constitutional guarantee to birthright ...

The case centres on whether lower courts have the power to block Trump's orders nationwide, including his proposal to end ...

New Jersey leads 22 states and two cities in appealing cases to the Supreme Court, which will decide whether to bar children from citizenship if their parents are non-citizens.