The text of the 14th Amendment borrowed heavily from the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which declared all people born in the United States, except for Native Americans who did not pay ...

John Conness still represents us. How lucky are we for that! So what if few Californians ever heard of him? Nor does it matter that Conness hasn’t served in public office since 1869. Because, right ...

The recent case before the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship points to a more fundamental constitutional crisis that has been called “post-constitutionalism.” We have reached the era in which ...

On a Friday in June, Frances Thompson swore an oath before a congressional committee and began to testify about what she’d experienced during a race riot in Memphis one month earlier. She told the ...