The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration ...

How the court handles the cases will be the strongest indicator yet of whether this court will check any administration ...

The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the ...

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is ...

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states, simply: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit brings the White House’s theory of citizenship closer to a ...

Its first sentence sums up the citizenship right guaranteed at birth: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

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 ...

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.