When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.

No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.

The principle was upheld by the 1898 Supreme Court case United States vs Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that children born in the US are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

Native Americans born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot detain or deport them for immigration violations. Since ...

Prof. Richard Epstein replies to our Politics & Ideas columnist.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, and the arguments put forward by the attorneys general bringing the suits, neither the Constitution nor Supreme Court precedent in the oft-cited 1898 Wong Kim Ark ...

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin pressed the government about long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent that the 14th ...

That claim is intentionally deceptive if not outright false. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court thoroughly examined the meaning and intent of the 14th ...

A third federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the ...