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The ruling on the Supreme Court’s biggest case of the term is in. The court found in Trump v. Barbara that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born in the ...

I am a descendant of the babies of slaves — and that is why I have something to say about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling ...

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 ...

It is easy to forget just how terrible the Dred Scott decision was.

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 ...

The president must confront a 1952 federal law, the possibility that millions will lose their citizenships, stateless foundlings and a fluid future. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal ...

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 ...

The text of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment declares: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State ...