Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have ...

Only a king can strip the rights of his subjects at will. Hours after his inauguration last year, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 11460, seeking to eliminate birthright citizenship ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

Bruce Lesley is incensed at one dimension of the debate about birthright citizenship that he says is being completely overlooked. "It's in the words: 'birth' right citizenship — this is about babies." ...

Longtime Asian American activist Helen Zia — whose parents were undocumented when she was born in America — pondered her own fate as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments challenging President ...