The United States Supreme Court is in the midst of a term that includes several high-profile cases on issues including ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.

Chief Justice John Roberts has never had much use for legal scholarship, but a new article about birthright citizenship may ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that anyone born on American soil is a citizen—has deep roots in English common law and ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...