The constitutional amendment, ratified after the Civil War, was at the center of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling.

Supporters of court ruling, including Democrats and civil rights groups, call it one of the most important modern affirmations of birthright citizenship. Critics, including many Republicans and immigration hardliners,

There’s little evidence that parents are using their American kids to help them jump the line themselves. The process is too complex for that.

The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

new video loaded: The ‘Constitutional Bedrock’ Trump Is Trying to Erase transcript Trump is on a mission to eliminate birthright citizenship, a right long thought to be guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. But how will the Supreme ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers themselves adopted the equal protection clause, the 14th ...

Can any serious legal scholar argue with a straight face that the authors of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution intended for almost anyone born on U.S. soil to automatically gain U.S. citizenship?