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 ...

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court of the United States has the opportunity to stop the separation, division, and segregation that federal courts are sanctioning in redistricting cases ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Friday handed down a highly-anticipated ruling involving President Donald Trump's Day 1 executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship. But many questions ...

Supreme Court will hear appeal of lower court ruling that struck down the president's January executive order limiting ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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

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.

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 ...

An Indiana mother, Nicole Graves, is suing her school district for alleged violations of her First and 14th Amendment rights. Graves recorded a meeting with the principal after her daughter filmed a ...

“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 ...