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 ...

Prof. Richard Epstein replies to our Politics & Ideas columnist.

On Thursday, the birthright citizenship issue is back before Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee. During a hearing last ...

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

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 ...

Quick summary • A second federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, ruling it unconstitutional and contrary to more than 250 years ...

A federal judge Wednesday furthered a block of President Trump’s executive order preventing the children of migrants without ...

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