President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

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

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s proposal betrays that history. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...

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

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

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

The saga begins before the Civil War with the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857, which denied citizenship to people of African descent even if they were not enslaved.