The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Trump a win by lifting blocks on his efforts to end birthright citizenship for ...

When proposing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress in 1866, Senator Jacob Howard referred to "the personal rights guaranteed and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; ...

The intent of the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause is central to the debate over whether former ... The Senate spent several days debating the House-passed amendment in the spring of 1866.

A constitutional question central to the upcoming presidential election that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court was also argued in front of Chicago’s courthouse in 1866. On Nov. 2 of that y… ...

The Constitution unambiguously and unequivocally establishes birthright citizenship. Those who do not wish the children of ...

A joint committee on Reconstruction then drafted what would become the 14th Amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1866 and ratified two years later. Why does it contain a public debt clause?

Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, learn what the 14th Amendment ...

On the 1866 act, he wrote that lawmakers initially thought that the bill would be color-blind, noting that they claimed in debates that it could even forbid laws that segregate schools or ban ...

T he Fourteenth Amendment won’t save us from Donald Trump. ... you need to imagine yourself back in the world of 1866, when the amendment was drafted. (It was ratified in July 1868.) ...

Here's a look at the 14th Amendment, which established birthright citizenship, and its original intent. ... As I have written ...

Birthright citizenship was enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1866 and was upheld by the Supreme Court more than 125 years ago. Florida Gov. DeSantis also seeks to end ...