The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, white southerners tried to restore, at gunpoint, the slave society that had existed prior to the war, notwithstanding the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to abolish birthright citizenship is not going well. Less than 72 hours after Trump ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

The Enemy Property Act of 1968 regulates properties left by individuals migrating to enemy nations. The act prohibits ...

The justices said Friday they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a charter school.

That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War, was reversed by ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868. Perhaps to counteract comparisons with a reviled decision that rested on notions of ...