Birthright citizenship-a cornerstone of American identity-has become the subject of intense national debate as President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his promise to end it. This principle ...

Lately, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis has become a go-to source on questions about President Donald Trump’s frenzied efforts to reshape the federal government—the main ...

It turns out that the President's three eldest children, Don Jr, 47, Ivanka, 43, and Eric, 41, were born to a non-US citizen ...

If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.

He issued an executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil whose parents don’t have permanent legal status. He promised such action on the campaign ...

Amid debate on birthright citizenship, ... have their babies so they can get legal citizenship and then go back across the border,” Goldman said. “That needs to come to an end. ...

Cornell law professor Michael C. Dorf says that the 14th Amendment’s plain language indicates ... One thing as a journalist I do sense is that the birthright citizenship debate isn’t going ...

This part of the 14th Amendment was adopted (1) to ensure that citizenship by birthright could not easily be taken away, and (2) to overturn the 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott ...