Congress has the right to block President-elect Donald Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act immediately. It is ...

Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship. But that goal is in tension with the Constitution, and an executive order ...

By Don Schmitz Our Constitution is explicit — 14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...

Some will argue that the Supreme Court decision in the Colorado case, Trump v. Anderson, precludes Congress from rejecting ...

The Supreme Court was asked to determine whether Wong had become a U.S. citizen at birth "by virtue of the first clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution," which says: "All persons born or ...

For the purpose of this discussion — which will be guided not by nativist outrage but by common sense —”it” shall be defined ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject ... the jurisdiction thereof' part of the 14th Amendment's text. This phrase from the Constitution means that all those born ...

In United States v. Wong Kim Ark ... a U.S. citizen at birth "by virtue of the first clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution," which says, "All persons born or naturalized in the ...

Opinion columnists at The Hill called on Congress to block President-elect Trump from taking office on the basis of 14th ...

This is the plain wording of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. “No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state ...

By Lance Simmens One of many promises that President-elect Trump committed to carry out while on the campaign trail would be to “absolutely” halt birthright citizenship once in office. The “birthright ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...