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Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Roberto Almeida-Santos, 56, an illegal alien born in Mexico, with perjury and immigration fraud. The indictment alleges that ...

The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has just published a symposium issue on the birthright citizenship debate. The focus of those contributions is on the original meaning of birthright ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

After over 15 years, director Steven Spielberg is finally getting back into the world of alien invaders. Sure, as a producer, Spielberg has continued to attach his name to shows like Falling Skies and ...

In 1830, the US Supreme Court determined that despite having been born in New York City in the 1770s, Anglican Bishop John Inglis of Nova Scotia was not a US citizen and therefore not eligible to ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

As the 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone explained: "the children of aliens, born here in England, are, generally speaking, natural-born subjects, and entitled to all the privileges of ...