The Fourteenth Amendment represented a great expansion ... but that challenge was blocked by the Courts." Read the full text ...

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 ...

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that “when the right ... is that the Southern newspapers in 1868 correctly read the ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and equal rights protection to people recently freed from slavery — that ...

This one would be different. Trump’s view of the 14th Amendment conflicts with the clear text and a legal interpretation more than a century old. And in contrast to other areas of policy and ...

That decree, which contradicted the text of the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent, ran into legal trouble three days later, when John Coughenour, a federal judge in Washington ...