Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

The Washington Post described the order as an effort to “reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,” and sure enough, the text includes a few paragraphs of legalese purporting to do ...

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

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 ...

Precedent and the text make clear that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our ...

Birthright citizenship in the United States is guaranteed by the first sentence of the 14 Amendment. Known as the ...

This one would be different. Trump’s view of the 14th Amendment conflicts with the clear text and a legal interpretation more than a century old. And in contrast to other areas of policy and ...