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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This paper certified that Wong Kim Ark was able to follow through with his plan to leave the United States and return. Three men signed this letter attesting to his identity. Included with the ...

NPR's Throughline hosts and producers, Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, tell us the story of how birthright citizenship began in 1898 with the Supreme Court case, U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark.

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

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chinese Americans gathered in San Francisco for a press conference ...