“Subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of ...

The court’s conservatives ripped the mask off the institution in a brief, unsigned decision allowing Alabama to use a ...

The Supreme Court is reviewing a Trump executive order challenging birthright citizenship, a 150-year-old constitutional ...

The genius of the U.S. Constitution lies in its clarity. The vision for the republic is definitively stated in the opening ...

"Trump's shocking use of slavery to justify exclusion in America sends a chilling message. Find out who holds his fate.

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter suggested the Supreme Court should overturn or weaken the 14th Amendment. Ratified on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment is a cornerstone of the U.S.

Citizenship, properly understood, is not geography. It is allegiance. The 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed an amendment on Thursday to “protect United States citizenship” and end birthright citizenship automatically granted to citizens born in the country as stipulated in the ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced Thursday that he was introducing a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship. “Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil ...

These libertarians with their prattling on about freedom and rights. They can be so tiresome. Please stop with the high dudgeon! Here’s an example of one such “freedom” person writing about open-ended ...

“Please inform me of the following,” someone who signed off as “Farmhand” inquired in a letter to The Buffalo News on March 13, 1926. “Is a child born in this country of foreign parents a citizen ...

The day before the U.S. Supreme Court was to hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, one of the most important decisions in the country’s history, Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett became ...