The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of ...

Many Indian families rely on birthright citizenship for their U.S.-born children to gain legal standing and, eventually, help ...

Both at the ACLU of New Hampshire, Devon Chaffee is the executive director and SangYeob Kim is senior staff attorney. On ...

There are rumblings that President Trump is considering disobeying various of the court orders that have been issued against his administration. Perhaps these rumblings are distorted or ...

On The Bold and the Beautiful, Luna (Lisa Yamada) gets to rewrite her family tree. A few new additions provide both an ...

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 ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that determined Scott, a slave, wasn’t a ...