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The federal judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump 's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children ...

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s ...

Senior U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour listened to 25 minutes of arguments before rejecting the order, halting the ...

The Senate narrowly confirmed President Trump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Friday, giving Trump his third ...

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution grants full citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States, ...

The judge said he’s been on the bench for decades and he couldn’t remember seeing another case where the action challenged so ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally ...

A cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the US immigration system has run into an early roadblock: an octogenarian federal judge in Seattle.

A Seattle-based federal judge granted a request from the Washington Attorney General's Office for a temporary restraining order to delay an executive order that could reinterpret the rules of ...