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 ...

"It'll get to the U.S. Supreme Court, and if the court follows the actual legislative intent and history, they will uphold ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

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 ...

Executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 are being legally challenged by civil rights unions, ...

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 ...

Yes, EO 11246 was amended in 2014 by President Barack Obama to add sexual orientation and gender identity to prohibited ...