ON FRIDAY, A SECOND FEDERAL APPEALS COURT declared unconstitutional Donald Trump’s attempt to undo the plain language of ...

Federal court rejects Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, citing historical precedent and Constitutional ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate ...

Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, a key architect of the amendment, explained that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else.” In contrast to the authors of the ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections ...

I used to accept "birthright citizenship," too. Then I read the Supreme Court cases purportedly saying the 14th Amendment automatically makes a child born in the United States an American citizen.

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...