It is widely agreed that “subject to the jurisdiction” excluded the children of diplomats, Native Americans subject and with ...

The court in 1898 ruled that the protections and guarantees afforded by the 14th Amendment belong to citizens and noncitizens ...

Jeff Jackson, North Carolina’s attorney general, on Thursday continued his modest winning streak against President Donald ...

The president’s insistence that the U.S. is the “only country in the world” to provide birthright citizenship is flatly wrong. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere do so. More to the point: No ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

Juleena Pham raises a very good question in her letter ( “Presidential immunity is disturbing,” Our Readers Views, Feb. 5). She wants to know why a convicted felon can become president of the United ...

Republicans are trying again to exclude people who are in the US illegally from the numbers used to apportion congressional ...

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

San Diego dropped the race requirement for a program meant to help households of color buy homes. A lawsuit claimed it ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping assertions of executive power during his first weeks back in office appear headed ...

The executive orders that Trump issued in a blizzard during the first three weeks of his presidency are unconstitutional, ...