Birthright citizenship is the idea that children born in the United States are American citizens–with very limited exceptions for the children of diplomats and occupying milita ...

Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children who are born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or ...

Editor’s Note: the following was posted on the Native American Rights Fund website this past week: In April 2026, the issue ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th Amendment acted as a correction to questions created by the 1857 Dred Scott ...

Even some of the justices named by Trump during his first term don’t seem to be buying it.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether children of parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily are not entitled to citizenship.

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 ...

It’s not who you are, or where you came from; it was whether you believed in and accepted the very notion of what it meant to ...

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 ...

While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating Second Amendment claims. In light of that experience, I was struck […] The ...