One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the United States adopted a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, one of the American bedrocks of equality. Now, that ...

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...

President-elect Donald Trump again expressed his desire to end birthright citizenship through executive action in his first network news interview since winning the election. "The 14th Amendment ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump told Politico that it would be “devastating” if the Supreme Court struck down his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In a wide-ranging interview with ...

“The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on birthright,” Rosen says. “It is really important that it’s a vision of ...