Activists will gather July 9 at the Supreme Court to celebrate the 14th Amendment and defend civil rights protections.

WASHINGTON (WHSV) - Almost 160 years ago on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was proposed in the wake of the Civil War as a way to, among other ...

We are having the wrong argument about the 14th Amendment. The debate should not center on birthright citizenship (a ...

Fix the 14th Amendment, Not the Court ...

In a post-Civil War America, Congress tried to ensure civil and legal rights to Black citizens, particularly those formerly enslaved. The effort led to three amendments that built upon one another.

In the 1860s, citizenship was not only extended but defined more narrowly than the chief justice acknowledges.

In the U.S. Supreme Court’s most anticipated case of its recently concluded term, the justices ruled last week that President ...

Many commentators, myself included, perceived a different headline to the Supreme Court’s rejection in Trump v. Barbara of ...

Tommy Tuberville says he would support a constitutional amendment to restrict birthright citizenship, despite a recent ...

The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

The reasoning cited by Justices Alito and Kavanaugh in Dobbs didn't work with birthright citizenship ...

In the annals of Supreme Court decisions, the public likely remembers what justices wrote for the court in famous cases, such ...