Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

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

For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s ...

That provision rightly repudiated the Supreme Court of the United States’ shameful decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship for certain ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 14th Amendment came about as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. The nation's highest court denied birthright citizenship to the ...

The 14th Amendment, however, was adopted in 1868. The 14th Amendment came about as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. The nation's highest court ...

This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore did not have the same ...