Monday’s amicus brief was spearheaded by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and joined by the Republican AGs of 17 other ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

CASA, an organization suing the Trump administration over its birthright citizenship executive order, has long relied on ...

Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order attacking birthright citizenship has reinvigorated the debate surrounding the ...

A successful repeal of birthright citizenship would mean the so-called pro-life party creates a class of stateless infants, a shadow caste mostly unprotected by law. It would require Americans to ...

For a country seemingly proud of calling itself a melting pot, a country that is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, it is ...

This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright ...

In no world whatsoever does Gray’s pro-birthright citizenship opinion in Wong Kim Ark apply to children of people in the U.S. illegally. Eighty-four years later, in Plyler vs. Doe, the court ...

Under President Trump's Jan. 20 executive order, not every baby born in the U.S. would automatically be a U.S. citizen. (Lindsey Nicholson / Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty ...