While many people have declared the US Constitution to be “crystal clear” on issues of governance, the truth is that much of ...

The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

are no more ‘born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ within the meaning of the first section of the fourteenth amendment, than the children of subjects of any ...

"Once incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment, the Citizenship Clause 'forever closed ... Trump can argue that the phrase about being 'subject to the jurisdiction' must have meaning, and should be ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment ... a corrective measure to a more exclusionary definition both ...

But does the 14th Amendment speak to abortion at all? Adler says no. No justice has ever held it does, “and no justice who considers himself or herself bound by the original public meaning of ...

Does the Civil War-era insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment disqualify Donald Trump from holding higher office? The court will hear a… It's the first time the nation's highest court will ...

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...

Howard University - the historically Black school here - opens a center today dedicated to the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War. It establishes that ...

Written in the wake of the Civil War as part of the Reconstruction effort to repair the rift between northern and southern states, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution deals ...

Civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill will head the project. On March 27, Howard University launched its 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, housed within Howard University’s ...