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(Emphasis added.) As the debate over the 14th Amendment makes clear, the shift in language from the 1866 Civil Rights Act to what became the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was not ...

In the December 4-3 vote, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from the race because of the 14th ...

Trump's Bible jumps from the original Constitution to the Bill of Rights and then to the ... That's a big deal. 14th Amendment - Post Civil War loyalty, etc It may come as no surprise that the ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a high-profile case regarding whether states can ban minors from ...

Therefore, many of the rights in the Bill of Rights were not extended to the states all at once through the Fourteenth Amendment. Instead, the Supreme Court ruled on each right, case by case ...

Most provisions of the Bill of Rights were requested in some form ... it has been argued that the purpose and structure of the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as judicial decisions between the ...

The First Amendment is widely considered to be the most important part of the Bill of Rights. It protects the fundamental rights of conscience—the freedom to believe and express different ideas ...

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Dr. Jared Ross share their takeaways from oral arguments in a Supreme Court case over transgender treatment.