In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified. - Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports Ka ...

Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has been interpreted, repeatedly, as an integral part of the 14th Amendment.

That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War, was reversed by ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868. Perhaps to counteract comparisons with a reviled decision that rested on notions of ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction ... LGBT people and other citizens for more than a century after the amendment’s ratification. And Erika Lee points out that Native Americans ...

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...