Birthright citizenship was part of English common law and referred to as jus soli ("right of the soil"). Yes, in two notable cases. In 1898 the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ...

Our political class is aflame, and our lawyer-ocracy is up in arms over President Trump’s executive order limiting the scope of “birthright” (or “soil-based”) citizenship to children of ...

The court has, for years now, deliberately avoided announcing hard-and-fast rules about the scope of injunctions that federal ...

In one of his first acts as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending ...

When Mozambique became independent from Portugal in 1975, Portuguese law on citizenship included an unconditional right of soil, which was then rolled back in 1981. An absolute right of soil is ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has asked the justices to largely reinstate his executive order ending birthright ...

“Common law doctrine [of citizenship by birth] was the law of ... held to grant unconditional citizenship to those born on US soil since 1898. That year, the Supreme Court ruled in United ...

It rejects allegiance and the false binary law of soil or law of blood (jus sanguinis) when constrained by republican principles that are equally “natural.” (In other words, when people tried ...

According to John Eastman – a leader of the move to limit the cases in which soil makes a U.S. citizen – when we ended a massive guest worker program in the 1920s at the beginning of the ...