Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s ...

Trump, the case challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship for children born ...

Noted originalist scholar Michael Ramsey has a potentially important new paper on birthright citizenship: "Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined," forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review. This article ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. (Geoff Livingston/Getty Images) While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th Amendment acted as a correction to questions created by the 1857 Dred Scott ...

This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the work of ensuring their enforcement. On July 9, 1868, South Carolina became ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...