“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners,” declared Sen. Jacob Howard (R-Mich.

The Supreme Court’s decision about President Donald Trump’s attempt to narrow access to birthright citizenship left no doubt ...

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal protections for Black people in the U.S. after slavery was abolished. What ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

Ava DuVernay’s ‘14th’ follows her Oscar-nominated ‘13th’ with a timely look at citizenship, belonging, and freedom.

Nearly a decade after 13th sparked conversations about mass incarceration and the legacy of the 13th Amendment, Ava DuVernay ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship — known as "birthright citizenship" — for children born in the United States to two ...

The Netflix film will mark a return to nonfiction for Ava DuVernay, the filmmaker of “Selma” and “Origin,” and a follow-up to ...

That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, that President Donald Trump is seeking to redefine as part of his campaign to overturn the ...

Chief Justice John Roberts asked the Trump administration's solicitor general, John Sauer, during oral arguments on Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship on Wednesday, about the scope of ...

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