Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the justices weigh the arguments, they will focus on the meaning of the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, known as the ...

On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews legal scholar Amanda Frost on her latest research on the original meaning of the Constitution's citizenship clause, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

(NEW YORK) -- When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the president's sweeping attempt to gut the Fourteenth ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to review the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship is not a routine procedural step. It is a sobering signal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the ...

President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three ...

Whether or not the Trump administration has found a loophole in Wong Kim Ark, the court decided this issue with some finality ...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States ...