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

The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will ...

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

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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

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

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 government contends that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was intended to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their descendants, not to children of illegal immigrants or temporary ...

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 ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

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 ...