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

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

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

For 156 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has ensured that all children born in the United States begin their lives as citizens. The citizenship clause is arguably the strongest expression of an ...

Legal experts warn that those whose parents are on work and student visas won’t be exempt from the implications of the new ...

Pregnant women are ‘sad, anxious and confused’ after Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship - Immigrant mothers fear their children could live in stateless limbo after the president’s ...

A child born in the United States (with limited exceptions) to a foreign citizen, legally or illegally present in the U.S., is by virtue of the 14th Amendment (the so-called Citizenship Clause ...

(It’s not ideal that a loud segment of the political press, who typically venerate the Constitution in flamboyant fashion, also found the disqualification clause worthy ... battle to strip citizenship ...

The citizenship clause’s exception for those not ... arguments are window dressing for the real goal. The Fourteenth Amendment’s overarching purpose was to end a caste system in which ...

The Fourteenth Amendment established that citizenship ... [2] Garrett Epps “The Citizenship Clause: A ‘Legislative History’,” American University Law Review: Vol. 60: Iss.

Birthright citizenship is currently guaranteed through the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment reads ... a few categories of people are excluded from the Constitution’s citizenship clause: children of foreign diplomats, children of enemy soldiers ...