The president’s insistence that the U.S. is the “only country in the world” to provide birthright citizenship is flatly wrong. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere do so. More to the point: No ...

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

A federal judge in Boston has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the ...

Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) called on President Donald Trump to “take a page out of [former President] Andrew Jackson’s ...

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 ...

As courts issue orders that pause or restrict a number of Trump actions, a more seismic conflict potentially lies ahead. On ...

President Donald Trump's administration says it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that blocks the president’s ...

Could it be that we’ve crossed a Rubicon to a constitutional crisis?

The issue of whether enslaved people were eligible for U.S. citizenship came to the forefront in 1857 when the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Dred Scott, a slave, and his bid to sue for freedom.

Whatever Judge Ho’s current position, the conclusion of his 2016 article may turn out to be prescient. “Stay tuned,” he wrote. “Dred Scott II could be coming soon to a federal court near you.” ...

In their decision, the court said Black people were not entitled to citizenship and even claimed they were inferior to white people.The Dred Scott decision contributed to the start of the Civil War.