The 14th Amendment states that people born in the United States are citizens. No president can change that.

The day President Donald Trump was inaugurated, he signed an executive order attempting to sharply limit eligibility for birthright citizenship. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Trump v. Barbara a simple fact made clear by the U.S. Constitution: If you are born in the United States, you are an American citizen. This is a critical victory f ...

As Pride Month highlights the ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender people in prison continue to face denials of medically necessary care despite court orders protecting access.

Dee Farmer sees great risk if the federal government succeeds in its efforts to end critical health care for incarcerated people with gender-affirming care needs. “People will die,” Farmer told the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera), she herself a formerly incarcerated transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of people in prison for dec ...

“I hope [my attorneys] will be able to help other people—the same way they helped me.”

Shackled hand and foot on a deportation flight to Mexico, Naomi* sat weeping and praying. Her parents brought her to the United States when she was nine years old. Though she had struggled to navigate the complex path to legal residency, she had built a life in the Chicago area, with children and grandchildren she would be leaving behind. When she ...