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The guarantee of citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment for persons born or naturalized in the United States.
has made several public remarks about the across years; his most direct, repeatedly reported formulations include: “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” and “Why...
are the general federal elections that occur roughly halfway through a president’s four‑year term and put control of Congress — all 435 seats and about one‑third of seats — on the ballot . They are wi...
in the rests on the ’s Citizenship Clause, long interpreted to grant automatic citizenship to virtually everyone born on U.S. soil and reaffirmed in key precedent such as and later cases and scholarsh...
The debate over whether ending is constitutional turns on one phrase in — "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" — and on whether long-standing practice and precedent like United States v. control that...
The 119th Congress includes a measurable cohort of foreign‑born members: congressional research and Pew data show 26 Representatives and six Senators were born outside the United States, and roughly 1...
Children born in the are presumptive U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment, and that constitutional principle remains the baseline legal protection against formal deportation of U.S.-born kids . Neve...
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...
The Constitution constrains ICE’s detention and deportation practices mainly through the Fifth Amendment’s due process protections, the Suspension Clause and habeas corpus traditions, and citizenship ...
from the decennial census would shrink the population counts states and localities use to guide the allocation of hundreds of federal programs, likely reducing funding for jurisdictions with large non...
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...
When a parent naturalizes, certain foreign‑born children can automatically derive U.S. citizenship—but only if a set of statutory conditions about parentage, custody, lawful admission, residence, and ...
An intercountry adoptee should first determine whether U.S. citizenship was automatically acquired under the Child Citizenship Act or other statutes and then secure documentary proof — most commonly a...
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 ...
The authority to define and regulate rests with under Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, a power long has treated as exclusive of the states; that federal power produced statutes like the that now govern...
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...