On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

In a recent New York Times op ed, legal scholars Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman offer a partial defense of President Trump's ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for what he calls “gate ...

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that the 14th Amendment right to American ... to do with granting citizenship to former slaves. The President stated this in a post on Truth ...

The 14th Amendment's original intent was to grant ... Lincoln's proclamation freed the slaves in the southern states. But he knew that an executive action was not enough, it had to be codified ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black ... to ratify the 14th Amendment, and the ...

The ongoing legal challenges to President Trump's order highlight the complexities of constitutional interpretation ...

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 ...