Likely not. ‘Jurisdiction’ in the 19th century was understood to cover visitors to the U.S.

ToplineThe Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to partially halt court rulings blocking President Donald ...

The Trump administration has officially requested the Supreme Court’s permission to proceed with terminating birthright ...

The Trump administration’s controversial push to restrict birthright citizenship is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up a historic legal battle that could alter the future ...

The seventh full week of the Trump administration was defined by new developments in both domestic and foreign policy Here ...

Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself ...

The administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention limiting the power of lower court rulings.

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon requested responses from states and groups that have challenged the constitutionality ...

Trump is requesting that court rulings in three different states be narrowed so that a judge’s order in one state can't overturn the executive order nationwide.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention Thursday limiting lower court rulings that are blocking President Trump’s plans to restrict birthright citizenship. The ...

Judges this week ordered the government to reinstate thousands of workers, while the administration turned to the Supreme ...

The president's contention that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional is considered a fringe view because the Supreme Court ruled to the contrary 127 years ago.