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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 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.

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and other attorneys general across the U.S. are bringing a birthright citizenship challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court. Skrmetti ...

The ratifiers of the 14th Amendment could not have contemplated excluding the children of unlawful entrants, because the concept did not yet exist in 1868.