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The Birthright Citizenship Act and its implications on the 14th Amendment, with Congress introducing competing measures and the Supreme Court set to review related cases.
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...
Naturalized citizens retain the core constitutional and statutory rights of citizenship—equal protection, voting, passports, and eligibility for most federal benefits reserved for citizens—yet the One...
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...
The suite of proposals and orders often referred to in media as the “Born in America” measures would curtail or clarify birthright citizenship by redefining who is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the...
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...
A change to U.S. birthright citizenship would require more than an executive action: the prevailing legal view is that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and Supreme Court precedent protect...
Demographic projection models from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and Penn State show that ending birthright citizenship would substantially increase the size of the U.S. unauthorized population...
If were legally ended going forward, existing people who already hold citizenship by virtue of birth would not suddenly lose it and be subject to mass deportation; U.S. law and court practice treat ci...
If birthright rules were changed to deny or limit jus soli, state governments would be squeezed between constitutional limits on federal power and practical responsibilities for births and benefits—ex...
The Born in America / Birthright Citizenship bills on the 2025–26 congressional calendar would narrow who counts as “subject to the jurisdiction” under the Fourteenth Amendment, limiting automatic U.S...