Eventually, the amendment would be interpreted to apply most provisions in the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ...

That concept aligns with what The Times in July described as “The Right-Wing Dream of ‘Self-Deportation ... It is a betrayal of the 14th Amendment to suggest otherwise or that it can be discarded with ...

The complaint cited both the 14th amendment and the Fifth amendment while arguing that the internship program violated the right of “Americans, like Plaintiff’s members,” to equal protection ...

(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 addition, the Court used the Due Process Clause to extend the Bill of Rights to the states over time through a practice known as “incorporation.” The Fourteenth Amendment promises that all ...

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In today’s oral argument in Merrill v. Milligan, Justice Jackson capped her very long questioning of Alabama solicitor general Edmund LaCour with a speech/question that went on for around four ...

John A. Bingham, the primary author of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, did not believe that Congress had the constitutional authority to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and he therefore ...

citing a clause in the 14th amendment that bars anyone who “engaged in insurrection” against the United States government from serving in public office. Right-wing pundits have blasted the ...

Soon after Congress had overturned President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it passed the Fourteenth Amendment and sent it to the states for approval. This was to counter ...

also citing the 14th Amendment. Both rulings are on hold pending appeal, but critics have warned that if the cases move forward they risk robbing voters of the right to deliver their own verdict ...