The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara does more than uphold a broad view of birthright citizenship. It reads into the Fourteenth Amendment a sweeping right for foreign nationals that the text,

In today’s politics, it wasn’t a sure bet that the U.S. Supreme Court would uphold birthright citizenship. We are gratified that a majority of the court respected the plain text of

Three Supreme Court justices have issued judicial opinions that interpret the Fourteenth Amendment in a manner diverging from its established application, which guarantees citizenship to 'all persons born' within U.

The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

The good news about the landmark birthright citizenship decision the Supreme Court issued Tuesday is that it correctly holds that children born in the U.S. automatically become citizens.

Justice Samuel Alito expressed discontent with the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down the Trump administration’s restrictions on birthright citizenship, calling the ruling both “one of the most important decisions” in the court’s history and “a serious mistake” in a dissenting opinion.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause ...