Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...

President Donald Trump's recent executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children of non-citizen parents has faced immediate legal pushback. Multiple federal judges, including those ...

The Civil War ended 160 years ago. The racist Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War era were outlawed in the 1960s. It is time for the United States to uphold the words of the 14th Amendment to the ...

Come and get me, President Donald J. Trump. Because it’s apparent that our reimposed president doesn’t give a whit about the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...

Perhaps the most controversial executive order President Trump has signed thus far is the one ending birthright citizenship, which was immediately challenged by several “blue” state attorney generals ...