The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the United States adopted a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people ...

We May Finally Break the Chains of Birthright Citizenship ...

As constitutional turns of phrase go, the part of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship seems more straightforward than most: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...