President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship was put on hold again by a federal judge ...

The Supreme Court lifted lower court blocks on a presidential order ending birthright citizenship for children born to ...

Legal advocates, including the Asian Law Caucus, filed a class action lawsuit to stop the executive order aimed at removing ...

A federal court in New Hampshire today blocked President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship and certified ...

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in ...

New Hampshire federal court halts Trump executive order targeting birthright citizenship Nationwide class certified to ...

The 14th Amendment ensures birthright citizenship for all born on U.S. soil. Skip to content. ... Rosen notes that issues of civil rights and equal treatment continued to be denied to African ...

A federal judge used an exception to overcome the Supreme Court's recent ruling that restricted the ability of judges to ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us ...

What Is the History of Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.? The 14th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Downs has studied the history of the Constitution extensively and points out that this concept of birthright citizenship was first defined in the Civil Rights Act of 1866. This law was passed after ...