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Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

Eric Foner, a historian and professor at Columbia University who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction and slavery, said the 14th amendment enabled Black people to legally enjoy freedoms ...

An obscure provision of the 14th Amendment could block former President ... to limit the influence of former Confederates in the Reconstruction era, The New York Times reported.

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might ...

"Reminder: Donald Trump is still possibly barred from being sworn in as President for inciting an insurrection in violation of Sect 3 of the 14th Amendment," one Threads post said.

In her speech, Jackson states that the Framers of the 14th Amendment adopted it “in ... the freedmen in — during the reconstructive — reconstruction period were actually brought equal ...

President-elect Donald Trump has called for an interpretation of the 14th Amendment that would deny citizenship to children ...

Like the enforcement clauses of the two other Reconstruction Amendments ... One specific purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment when Congress proposed it in 1866 was to ensure that Congress had ...

Black Americans had just received the right to vote thanks to the passage of the Reconstruction Acts and the 14th Amendment, but formal suffrage rights did not guarantee that Black Americans could ...