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San Francisco-born Chinese American, whose challenge to the government's refusal to entry led to Supreme Court decision in 1898 establishing an important precedent of birthright citizenship in its interpretation of the 14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause has been interpreted by courts to grant birthright citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil, including children of undocumented immigrants, based ...
in 2023–2026 that retroactively forces federal officeholders to be "born in the " or strips naturalized citizens from or the presidency; instead, multiple bills and executive actions have been propose...
The Supreme Court’s doctrine on which constitutional rights reach non‑citizens is a patchwork of landmark decisions establishing that “persons” within U.S. territory receive many constitutional protec...
The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause provides that “all persons born or naturalized in the , and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens” — a provision long interpreted by courts an...
The ’s has been a study in tension: a long arc from exclusionary rulings that denied basic rights to categorical holdings that recognize non‑citizens as "persons" entitled to due process and, in some ...
is under active legal and political attack but is not yet obsolete: and seek to curtail jus soli, has agreed to review the issue for its 2026 term, and a patchwork of injunctions and legal opinion cur...
Three layers of federal rulings have shaped the legal fight over President Trump’s Executive Order 14160: multiple federal district judges issued nationwide preliminary injunctions blocking the Order’...
Three distinct legislative tracks in the 119th Congress framed the birthright citizenship debate: bills that would narrow jus soli by redefining who is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United Stat...
The parents of Wong Kim Ark were not described in the contemporary record as “illegal aliens”; they were Chinese subjects who maintained a permanent domicile and residence in San Francisco at the time...
A child born on U.S. soil is, by long-standing constitutional interpretation, a U.S. citizen at birth, a status that does not automatically change the immigration or criminal exposure of the child’s n...
The of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to overturn and secure birthright citizenship for formerly enslaved people, and courts have since read it as embedding a broad jus soli rule while carving o...
The century-plus legal practice of granting citizenship to nearly everyone born on soil now faces an acute constitutional and political assault: the fast-tracked review of the Trump administration’s e...
The Supreme Court’s long-running jurisprudence has historically treated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause as establishing broad birthright citizenship for most persons born on U.S. soil—a ...
The 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause has been interpreted for more than 125 years to grant nearly automatic citizenship to almost everyone born on U.S. soil; lower courts have repeatedly held that ...
A bill such as the “Born in the USA Act” must be introduced, referred to committee, reported, passed in identical form by both chambers, and be signed by the President to become law; H.R.3368 and S.64...
The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born Citizen” (Article II, Section 1, Clause 5) and otherwise sets minimums of 35 years of age and 14 years’ U.S. residency . The Constitution ...
The Constitution requires the president be a “natural born Citizen,” but the text does not define that term and the Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on whether being born inside U.S. territo...
Since 2020 courts have continued to define how the 14th Amendment protects noncitizens—most decisively through lower-court fights over detention, due process, and birthright citizenship that reached t...
The debate over the “natural‑born citizen” requirement has been litigated mostly in two eras: late‑19th/early‑20th‑century cases that established birthright citizenship (notably United States v. Wong ...
v. held that a person born in the United States to parents who were subjects of a foreign power but permanently domiciled here acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under the ; the ordered Wong released ...