Washington — President-elect Donald Trump says he'll end birthright citizenship, after years of criticizing the constitutional right. Trump on Monday issued executive action to attempt to deny birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The U.S. government has ...
As it pushes to implement a plan toend birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is counting on an argument about out-of-control federal judges to prove irresistible to some Supreme Court conservatives. Rather than waiting to ask the court to rule directly on the merits of birthright citize...
Blocking birthright citizenship is a shocking rejection of a bedrock American value. It is also an attempt to subvert citizenship rules and legal precedent to exclude and narrowly define who “counts” as American. Indeed, the central reason Congress protected birthright citizenship in the 1...
“The 14th Amendment settled the question of birthright citizenship,” Professor Yoo wrote. “Conservatives should not be the ones seeking a new law or even a constitutional amendment to reverse centuries of American tradition.” A few prominent scholars have dissented, notably Peter H. Schuck, an...
Donald Trump has spent years condemning what’s known as “birthright citizenship” and vowing to undo it, despite the plain language of the Constitution. To that end, on Inauguration Day, the new Republican president kept one of his uglier campaign promises andissued an executive orderthat not...
A federal judge in Seattle is set to hear the first arguments Thursday in a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents' immigratio
Born in the U.S.A.: American Birthright Citizenship Is Downright ConstitutionalTHE BIRTHER MOVEMENT IS AT IT AGAIN. NO, I'M NOT talking about the fringe group that insists, in defiance of all evidence to the contrary, that President Barack Obama is not a native-born citizen.Clarke, Kevin...
It's too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullifybirthright citizenshipfor some—a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. And he has closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law. Lo...
And during the first court hearing about Trump's executive order onbirthright citizenship, the position of defending Trump's order put Brett Shumate, the acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ's civil division, in a federal judge's firing l...
Executive Order Cannot Alter Constitutional Protections Given that birthright citizenship is a legal right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, this right could be altered only through an amendment to the Constitution, barring a radical reinterpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court. Only Congress and th...