US President Jimmy Carter created the department in 1979 as a Cabinet-level agency. It consolidated educational functions ...

Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said in a recent interview that opponents of President Trump’s executive action against birthright ...

Newly inaugurated President Trump appears to have little regard for our rule of law. First, he freed about 1,500 convicted ...

President Donald Trump railed on Truth Social about opposition to his executive order limiting birthright citizenship for ...

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship — the idea that all ...

A constitutional law professor and a former USAID administrator are raising questions about President Trump's actions around USAID and what it could mean about the role of Congress in Washington.

As fully expected, President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship was challenged by attorneys from ...

On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office.

Conversely, changing birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment. This has been enshrined in the Constitution by the 14th Amendment and was upheld by the Supreme Court in the case ...

On Sunday, Trump followed up the quote by calling on lawyers and judges to be “tough” and protect the country as his administration stares down a pitched legal battle to end birthright citizenship, ...

Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

Those Floridian same sex couples are among the estimated 700,000-plus ones in the country, in addition to another ...