This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

Fourteenth Amendment-mandated birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens is, at best, a live and unsettled legal ...

Several states suing Donald Trump over his executive order ending birthright citizenship urged a judge to issue a preliminary ...

Former state representative Scott Sanford speaks at a McKinney meeting in 2014. Sanford announced he's running for mayor in McKinney. Sanford is also a pastor at Cottonwood Creek Church in Allen ...

In the decade before the amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a landmark ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford stating that people of African ... The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in ...

In 1856, the Supreme Court held in the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford that the U.S.-born descendants of African slaves were not and could never become citizens, even though under the ...

Former Texas State Representative Scott Sanford declared his candidacy for McKinney mayor on Jan. 23, promising to preserve the city's community spirit while addressing its growing needs.

Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge John Coughenour is overseeing the case and could decide whether ... Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford that African Americans could ...

The Trump directive recalls the era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision that said Black people could not be citizens. That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War, was reversed ...