A conservative think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence is urging Congress to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S. Virgin Islands and other unincorporated territories, arguing that the Insular Cases leave territorial citizenship under congressional control and that federal statutes should be amended so citizenship at birth is limited to children with at least one U.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's executive order reinterpreting birthright citizenship. The nation's highest court got this one right. The Constitution ...

The conservative legal movement never considered Roe v. Wade to be the final word on abortion. It doesn’t consider Trump v. Barbara to be the final word on the Fourteenth Amendment.

Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed to struggle with how to square arguments against Trump’s birthright citizenship order with the exception to the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause for Native Americans. Gorsuch cited an 1884 case known as Elk v. Wilkins, in ...

The Supreme Court today upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Barbara, striking down President Trump’s executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born on US soil to undocumented or temporary-visa parents. In a ...

For more than a century, a baby born on American soil has been an American citizen. That guarantee, written into the 14th Amendment after the Civil War, has shaped how hospitals operate, how health coverage is assigned and how families plan their futures.

President Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship at the White House.Evan Vucci/AP The central legal question the justices are being asked to decide is whether President Trump’s executive order seeking to end automatic birthright ...