The cases, brought by nonprofits, state attorneys general, civil rights groups and private citizens, challenge Trump’s ...

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright ...

The president's executive orders have already drawn dozens of legal challenges, including some that could make it to the U.S.

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed African American slaves; its birthright citizenship clause has since been ...

US District Judge Leo Sorokin granted the request by attorneys generals from Massachusetts and 17 other states.

Federal judges in Maryland, Washington State and New Hampshire have already issued similar injunctions to stop the executive ...

By MIKE CATALINI President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday said it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling ...

Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a century-old immigration practice known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children ...

Maryland. Scholars such as Eastman and Erler ... the few instances in which Congress addressed the issue appear to support birthright citizenship. When the text of the Fourteenth Amendment ...

Birthright citizenship was first established in 1868 ... five pregnant women joined a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Maryland challenging its constitutionality. The ACLU and immigrant ...

It would end birthright citizenship for children born to people ... Their hearing in Seattle came just hours after a federal judge in Maryland convened a call to discuss scheduling in a separate ...