The constitutional amendment, ratified after the Civil War, was at the center of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling.

The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause ...

On Wednesday, April 1, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may be the most important case in decades. The court will now consider President Donald Trump’s executive order rejecting birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, and ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. These days, everyone wants to be an originalist. But in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright-citizenship case at the Supreme Court, not everyone is doing originalism well. Alas, the ...

The Supreme Court signaled Thursday it is poised to back former President Donald Trump and fend off a blockbuster challenge to his eligibility to appear on Colorado’s ballot, potentially by a wide margin. During more than two hours of arguments, Chief ...

Supporters and protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court to hear the final decisions released for this session.