U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that President Trump's administration cannot withhold citizenship from children ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship was blocked nationwide by a fourth court on Thursday, ...

Fight over Trump's order to deny birthright citizenship heads toward Supreme Court, with 14th Amendment protections at stake ...

The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

It granted full citizenship to formerly enslaved people and their children, and ensured everyone born in the United States could claim citizenship regardless of race; legal rulings eventually ...

Trump's January order would deny citizenship to children born to parents living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily.

A federal judge in Maryland blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions nationwide late Thursday, the ...