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The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
Appeals court to review Trump's birthright citizenship order after Supreme Court ruling narrowed lower courts' ability to issue universal injunctions.
The Trump administration has released plans to implement its executive order restricting birthright citizenship even as ...
A federal appeals court appeared ready on Friday to become the second such court in the country to rule that President Donald ...
Birthright citizenship is a moral commitment to the idea that the American Dream is not defined by bloodlines or borders, but ...
After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...
A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...
A Massachusetts federal court blocked President Trump's order to end birthright citizenship, citing potential injuries ...
About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.
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 ...