Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.

Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, but that doesn't mean the Supreme Court can't find a way to render it obsolete ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has asked the justices to largely reinstate his executive order ending birthright ...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nominations of D. John Sauer to be U.S. solicitor general, Harmeet ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.

Sen. Josh Hawley is challenging Democrats to think about whether federal judges always get it right as he seeks to push back ...

On March 6, 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin.

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