President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

Prof. Richard Epstein replies to our Politics & Ideas columnist.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Attorney General Alan Wilson has thrown himself into the debate over birthright citizenship following President Donald ...

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That ...

At a time when Republicans are seeking to narrow the definition of who is a citizen under the 14th Amendment by eliminating birthright citizenship, they are also using the 14th Amendment to extend ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

Contrary to popular belief, the 14th Amendment doesn’t say that all ... a desire on Congress’s part to abrogate the statutory definition or adopt universal birthright citizenship.

The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins ... of the Constitution were almost certainly leaning on the definition offered by Samuel Johnson, the English writer and ...

The new definition is "flagrantly unlawful," according to the lawsuit. The 18 states point to the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which states that all people "born or naturalized in the United ...