While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating Second Amendment claims. In light of that experience, I was struck […] The ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

President Trump's executive order adopting a narrow understanding of birthright citizenship in order to exclude the American-born children of unauthorized immigrants and temporary visitors has ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally ...

The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a landmark case challenging the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of ...

A decade ago, I wrote a cover story for Reason magazine titled "Trump vs. the Constitution." It explained how then-candidate Donald Trump's call to abolish the constitutional guarantee of birthright ...

In our last column, we imagined grilling Solicitor General D. John Sauer in a moot court on birthright citizenship. Today, we ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...