The battle over birthright citizenship is just getting started. Challengers to President Trump’s executive order view ...

The president applauded the conservative majority’s 6-3 ruling limiting nationwide injunctions to stop executive orders, a ...

Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers ...

Outside the Americas, however, nearly no countries do. Germany is an odd exception. On Jan. 1, 2000, German policy switched from a parent’s citizenship policy to conditional birthright citizenship.

The U.S. is among at least 33 countries where birthright citizenship applies; most are in the Americas, with Canada and Mexico among them.

The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

Perhaps the most pointed question came after a lengthy back-and-forth over what the writers of the 14th Amendment meant when they enshrined birthright citizenship into the U.S. Constitution.

A federal appeals court in Washington state focused its questioning during a hearing on Wednesday about the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship on the language of the ...

Washington’s case against Trump’s birthright citizenship order, filed alongside Oregon, Arizona and Illinois, led to the second Trump administration’s first judicial rebuke.

Birthright Citizenship in US: 14th Amendment and Trump's Order Explained The Supreme Court is reviewing nationwide injunctions that blocked Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship.

Legal experts said the next 30 days will be critical in determining whether Donald Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship is allowed to take effect in states not covered by an injunction.

The “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” language makes limited exceptions to birthright citizenship for people who aren’t fully subject to U.S. law.