A red state lawmaker quietly called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, but plenty of people are ...
The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...
Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter suggested the Supreme Court should overturn or weaken the 14th Amendment.
U.S. Supreme Court Building Credit: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 Rights groups in Arkansas see the potential end of birthright citizenship as yet another attack on immigrants by the Trump administration.
Editor: This coming April 1, better known as April Fool’s Day, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument on President Trump’s fool’s errand of trying to end Constitutional Birthright ...
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 ...
The National Archives Foundation and More Perfect announced today that the nationwide final vote was between the 13th and 14th amendments—in this first-of-its-kind competition among 100 historical ...
President Donald Trump told Politico that it would be “devastating” if the Supreme Court struck down his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In a wide-ranging interview with ...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th Amendment acted as a correction to questions created by the 1857 Dred Scott ...
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating Second Amendment claims. In light of that experience, I was struck when ...