The Supreme Court recently allowed Donald Trump to edge closer to ending Birthright Citizenship as outlined in the Fourteenth ...

And Trump won’t like what they had to say. The president is correct on one point: The Fourteenth Amendment’s framers intended ...

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It is broadly agreed that the purpose of the 14th Amendment was to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was passed over the veto of then-President Andrew Johnson.

The first opponent to speak was Sen. Edgar Cowan (R–Penn.), who objected to the 14th Amendment on the grounds that it would bestow U.S. citizenship on the children of unpopular immigrants.

The urgency of the 14th Amendment was also a direct response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which declared that Black people, whether free or enslaved, could not be US ...

In January, Trump signed an executive order declaring that children of immigrants are not entitled to U.S. citizenship despite the 14th Amendment to the Constitution’s guarantee that “all ...

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But the DEI activists’ reading of the Fourteenth Amendment is not quite as outlandish as may at first sight appear, for two reasons. First, the widespread “ consensus ” that racial equality is an ...

‘The origins of the Fourteenth Amendment cannot be understood apart from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that Congress enacted over President Andrew Johnson’s veto.