Thirty years later, the Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the clause means just what it says: Anyone born in America is a citizen of America.

Anyone born in the United States is considered a citizen at birth, which derives from the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment that was added to the US Constitution in 1868.

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.

The 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark case was the first to consider whether children born to parents without legal status are citizens. Two of the “best” malls in the country are in suburban ...

Babies born to immigrants without full legal status in the 28 states where there was no challenge to the executive order could be deprived of U.S. citizenship, raising concerns that a month from ...

The case then went to the SCOTUS – Supreme Court of the United States. Last week, the Supreme Court heard the first round of arguments on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

In an 1898 ruling about the citizenship of a man born in the United States to Chinese parents, the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment, “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the ...

Indeed, he adds, the birthright citizenship case is a prime example of why nationwide injunctions are sometimes needed. The question the court needs to think about, he says, "is whether it wants ...

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The US State Department says on its website that it may “actively review” the citizenship status of Americans who “serve as a foreign head of state." Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S ...