On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews legal scholar Amanda Frost on her latest ...

When the justices weigh the arguments, they will focus on the meaning of the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, known as the citizenship clause. zimmytws/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, ...

The president has used the right-wing bloc’s extreme solicitousness to facilitate new heights of corruption. But there may be ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

Is American citizenship automatically bestowed on children born within the territory of the United States, regardless of the nationality of the child’s parents? For more than 125 years, the answer has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Supreme Court is preparing to hear Trump vs. Washington, a case that could redefine the constitutional meaning of birthright citizenship for the first time in more than a century. At issue is ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has never had much use for legal scholarship, but a new article about birthright citizenship may ...

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