The U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case in 2026 challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to end birthright citizenship. Trump v. Barbara challenges Trump’s executive order that denies ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington-based watchdog group, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit on behalf of a handful of voters seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the ...

The ratifiers of the 14th Amendment could not have contemplated excluding the children of unlawful entrants, because the ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...