President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,

Last Friday, former President Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land" - so why has it failed to become the nation's 28th constitutional amendment.

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve discussed, unilaterally deny citizenship to certain people born in the United States, against the clear direction of the Constitution.

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With one signature, President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship where children born here were U.S. citizens even if their parents weren't.

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War, by creating a permanent underclass of stateless people who have no rights they can invoke in their defense.

It's foolish to try to predict what the courts are going to do, particularly when dealing with historic legal questions, but the writing may be on wall for this one.

A sign prohibiting the entry of ICE or Homeland Security personnel has been posted on a door at St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church in New York City. The action follows the Trump administration’s removal of immigration enforcement protections for schools and churches in New York, on January 22, 2025.

Ratified by the states in 1868, the 14th Amendment holds that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.” Crucially, it doesn’t matter who the child’s parents are or where they are from.

Sanctions would endanger the investigation of war crimes across the globe and prove a grave blow to human rights.