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 ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

Attorneys general from 18 states, including California’s Rob Bonta, sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s executive order.

After SCOTUS opened the door to President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the anniversary of the 14th Amendment takes on an added significance. The anniversary of the ratification of the ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

The Supreme Court will review President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for some children born in the U.S. Trump's order reinterprets the 14th Amendment to exclude ...

The Supreme Court recently allowed Donald Trump to edge closer to ending Birthright Citizenship as outlined in the Fourteenth Amendment. SCOTUS didn’t weigh in on the merits of the case before them, ...

Trump thinks he can end birthright citizenship. What exactly is the 14th Amendment? Trump wants to upend the Constitution, so let's look at what exactly the original law says.