Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the ...

This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President ...

President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which aims to strip citizenship from children born on U.S. soil to parents who did ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan.

The Department of Justice later said in a statement that it will “vigorously defend” the president’s executive order, which it said “correctly interprets the 14th Amendment of the U.S ...

“The executive order conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citi ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning birthright citizenship, which is allowed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Presidents cannot undo the Constitution with an ...

Trump’s executive order, signed on his first day back in office on Jan. 20, had directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States if neither ...

His parents were merchants who were living in the country legally. As a result of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified just a few years earlier, he was by virtue of birth an American ...

Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment indicates that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as ...

This has been the practice only since the 1960s and is based on what some believe is a flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which reads that "all persons born or naturalized in the United ...