Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

President Trump signed an executive order that denied “birthright citizenship” to individuals born in the United States to ...

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 ...

Indeed, the central reason Congress protected birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment after the Civil War was to reject the shameful 1857 Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court declared ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

But one order is in a category of its own. His decree proposing to end the constitutional promise of birthright citizenship contradicts the plain words of the 14th Amendment and would reverse an 1898 ...

Black History Month, Sopris Sun illustrator Larry Day will highlight an influential African American person each week, ...