More than 120 years ago, a Supreme Court decision in favour of a Chinese-American man named Wong Kim Ark played a key role in ...

Before joining the bench, however, he wrote an essay directly addressing birthright citizenship and said the 14th Amendment and Wong Kim Ark case protected children of undocumented immigrants.

Indeed, the central reason Congress protected birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment after the Civil War was to reject the shameful 1857 Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court declared ...

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the infamous ...

Eighteen states have sued the federal government over the executive order, showing the legal challenges the president will ...

Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead ...

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

Plaintiffs challenging Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship on Monday said the DOJ's own argument is ...

Born in 1873 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wong Kim Ark became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today.

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland Wednesday issued a nationwide injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive ...