As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

U.S. Supreme Court Building Credit: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 Rights groups in Arkansas see the potential end of birthright citizenship as yet another attack on immigrants by the Trump administration.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments April 1 on the issue of automatic citizenship for babies born in the United States. President Trump said he planned to attend the oral arguments before the ...

The president must confront a 1952 federal law, the possibility that millions will lose their citizenships, stateless foundlings and a fluid future. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal ...

On Wednesday, April 1, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may be the most important case in decades. The court will now consider President Donald Trump’s executive order rejecting ...

new video loaded: The ‘Constitutional Bedrock’ Trump Is Trying to Erase transcript Trump is on a mission to eliminate birthright citizenship, a right long thought to be guaranteed by the 14th ...