Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections ...

While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to “end birthright citizenship” for children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents.

The Birthright Clause did not invent a new idea: it constitutionalized an old one.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta believes the U.S. Supreme Court will reject efforts to limit birthright citizenship, ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S. "On a prospective basis, the federal government will not recognize automatic ...

Justices appear sceptical of the order, but could rule narrowly, leaving room for the debate to return through US Congress.