After a federal court ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, ...

Explore the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, a pivotal post-Civil War amendment granting citizenship and rights to formerly enslaved people. Learn about its key provisions, impact on ...

The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

“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 ...

Discover the significance of the 14th Amendment, its impact on civil rights, and why it remains relevant in the fight for ...

By framing the Fourteenth Amendment as only applicable to Black people, he can classify it as one of the vague and all-encompassing DEI laws, which allows him to dismiss anything he doesn’t like.

Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved ...

Failure to enforce these laws — especially as unrest spreads in Democrat-led cities — undermines the rule of law and erodes equal protection guaranteed under the 14th Amendment.

Under the law in 1970, Cruz’s mother, Elizabeth Darragh, could convey citizenship to him only if she had been “physically present” in the U.S. for 10 years before his birth, including at ...