On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued Executive Order 14160 “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The directive attempted to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in May on Trump's bid to enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship.

As a presidential candidate in 2016, Marco Rubio defended the conventional understanding of birthright citizenship, which contradicts the view embraced by the administration he currently serves as ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...