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Does birthright citizenship require that the parents have an "allegiance" to the United States, as the Trump administration ...
The Constitution does not provide automatic birthright citizenship. Citizenship is limited to those subject to U.S.
The Trump administration’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship is a serious challenge to the 14th Amendment, ...
The Justices on the Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday with a high-stakes case involving birthright citizenship that’s poised ...
Trump may think that birthright citizenship is only "about the babies of slaves." But as these statements from the 1866 ...
New Jersey leads 22 states and two cities in appealing cases to the Supreme Court, which will decide whether to bar children from citizenship if their parents are non-citizens.
Deadline: White House” legal analyst Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump administration ...
A Guatemalan woman who gave birth in Arizona shortly after crossing the border puts a human face on the topic of automatic citizenship for her baby.
The recent case before the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship points to a more fundamental constitutional crisis that ...
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ... This language became the legal foundation of birthright citizenship, affirming the rights of formerly enslaved individuals and anyone else born on ...
Professor Evan Bernick recently guest blogged here about birthright citizenship ... scope and import of the citizenship clause in Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment. Bernick recently debated ...
The 14th Amendment guarantees children born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of the status of their parents. Birthright citizenship has been the law of the land for more than a century.