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

This had to do with the babies of slaves,” the president asserted yesterday, at a press conference celebrating a Supreme Court decision that partially clears the way for the administration to end the ...

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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 Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing. ... Andrew Johnson, ...

A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. ... Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the nation’s first civil rights law.

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born ... many Americans — including President Andrew Johnson — thought that the country’s four million Black residents should ...

A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking ... Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the nation’s first ...