A red state lawmaker quietly called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, but plenty of people are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

President Trump's executive order adopting a narrow understanding of birthright citizenship in order to exclude the American-born children of unauthorized immigrants and temporary visitors has ...

Editor: This coming April 1, better known as April Fool’s Day, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument on President Trump’s fool’s errand of trying to end Constitutional Birthright ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court convenes on Thursday for an unusual May session, the only item on the calendar will involve President Trump’s executive order, which purports to exclude the children of ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...