What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
Opinion
Donald Trump Is Emphatically Correct About Birthright Citizenship
Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead wrong on the law. Trump's Jan. 20 executive order on birthright citizenship is legally sound and fundamentally just.
Opinion
Birthright citizenship stunt is classic Trump
Overruling the 14th Amendment by executive order is a gambit that is unlikely to change the law, but starts a fight the president wants to have.
Opinion
Opinion: Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship is legally sound
The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States. They weren't.
Birthright citizenship: Why the ‘right of soil’ is so big in the Americas
More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them are in the Western Hemisphere. The reason is more complicated than you might think.
Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship could upend 150 years of law
President Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship faces lawsuits over the 14th Amendment. This may be prelude to other efforts to end it.
Santa Clara County files suit over Trump executive order on birthright citizenship
Officials in Santa Clara County on Thursday said they have filed a federal lawsuit over President Trump's executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship.
The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship
The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...
New York Sun1d
Democrats’ Hypocrisy on Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court will have the final say and will almost certainly interpret the 14th Amendment in Mr. Trump's favor.
Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified.
Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports ...
Missouri AG backs up Trump's birthright citizenship order, argues 14th Amendment has been 'perverted'
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey defended Trump's opening volley of executive orders, saying he within his rights to end birthright ...
Mother Jones12d
Actually, the 14th Amendment Still Exists
Trump signed an executive order purporting to rewrite birthright citizenship. That's not how the Constitution works.
The Tennessean (Nashville) on MSN12d
What is birthright citizenship? Can Trump get rid of it? What to know about executive order
Birthright citizenship grants automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country and is enshrined in ...
What Does Biden’s ERA Statement Mean?
Q: Did former President Joe Biden issue a statement saying that he thought the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ...
How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term — Despite the 22nd Amendment
Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...