The orders signed at the White House included a directive to end birthright citizenship, a move sure to spark a constitutional fight over the 14th Amendment.
While it’s all but certain Trump allies can’t change the Constitution—modifying the 22nd Amendment—the president could try to use legal loopholes to stay in power.
Some people claim Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship will affect his own allies like Usha Vance and Marco Rubio. Here’s why that’s false.
In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The 47th president pressed the point during litigation over his eligibility for office after Jan. 6. He was sworn in again on Monday.
Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified. - Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports Ka
What is birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which Donald Trump has vowed to end? - The new president wants to end automatic citizenship for anyone born in the US, especially for the child
The lawsuit to block the president’s executive order is the first salvo in what is likely to be a long-running legal fight over immigration policy.
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
With one signature, President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship where children born here were U.S. citizens even if their parents weren't.
A federal judge Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship —the policy automatically giving citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.—and declared it “blatantly unconstitutional,” as legal experts widely believe the president does not have the power to change the policy on his own.