More than 22 U.S. states and immigrants' rights groups sued the Trump administration to block the birthright citizenship executive order. To date, no court has upheld it.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, birthright citizenship is not entirely settled U.S. law. The executive order states, “the ...