In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s proposal betrays that history. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...

In the first—but surely not the last—court order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour said he could ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

Within 24 hours of becoming president, Donald Trump released his first White House Fact Sheet, “Ending the Radical and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship as part of his hardline immigration ...

The president’s insistence that the U.S. is the “only country in the world” to provide birthright citizenship is flatly wrong. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere do so. More to the point: No ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

And I can’t imagine what the legal argument for that would be.” Whatever Judge Ho’s current position, the conclusion of his 2016 article may turn out to be prescient. “Stay tuned,” he wrote. “Dred ...

Sandford, better known as the Dred Scott decision. This 1857 decision, written for the majority of the court by Taney (who pronounced his name as “tawny”) remains a stain on American ...

The president’s executive order would purportedly end a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. But that's not how this works.