The Supreme Court will hear arguments on a Trump order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The case challenges long-standing 14th Amendment interpretation and could affect hundreds of thousands of ...

The Birthright Clause did not invent a new idea: it constitutionalized an old one.

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

As legal proceedings surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship move toward the country’s highest court, the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...