Legal scholars Amy Swearer and Hans von Spakovsky challenge birthright citizenship, arguing 14th Amendment excludes children ...

A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments early next year in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

One of President Trump's first actions in his second term was an Executive Order purporting to limit birthright citizenship ...

Explore the implications of the Supreme Court reviewing Birthright Citizenship and its effects on the Fourteenth Amendment.

When the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to consider the legality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, it presented the justices with two cases in which the ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement ...

The debate over birthright citizenship is one of the most misunderstood constitutional questions in American law. Many claim that the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S.

Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in four additional cases. Most notably, the justices granted the Trump Administration's petition for certiorari before judgment in Trump v. Barbara, one of ...

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments about whether the Citizenship Clause of the 14 th Amendment means what it says, that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. From the moment President Donald Trump issued his executive order on birthright ...