The Citizenship Clause, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, was included to ensure that formerly enslaved people would be ...

Federal judges have uniformly cast doubt on Trump’s reading of the Citizenship Clause. Three judges have blocked the order ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments about injunctions against Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for those born to ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether federal judges can block Trump administration policy across the country.

In a case involving changes to birthright citizenship, the justices heard arguments on whether a single federal judge in a ...

Arguments before the US Supreme Court on birthright citizenship – awarded to those born in the US – actually focused on the ...

The Supreme Court is considering whether Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship can be enforced while it's ...

The Trump administration's bid to enforce its birthright citizenship executive orders gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to address the soundness of nationwide injunctions.

The Justices on the Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday with a high-stakes case involving birthright citizenship that’s poised ...

A 1992 case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, soon brought that issue to the fore. The Supreme Court had been expected to use it to overrule Roe v. Wade. Not only did the ...

Retired Justice David Souter, who over almost two decades on the Supreme Court ... to the nation’s highest court. Following his retirement, he continued to hear cases at 1st Circuit by sitting ...