We are having the wrong argument about the 14th Amendment. The debate should not center on birthright citizenship (a ridiculous concept). It should center on whether the amendment itself was ever ...

To rejoin the Union, Georgia had little choice but to follow the requirements of Reconstruction, even if it did so reluctantly. So, in December 1865, Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment, helping reach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said "birthright tourism" has "devalued" the 14th Amendment after President Trump called on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators from across the country will gather outside the Supreme Court on July 9 to celebrate the 158th birthday of the 14th ...

Every lower court to have considered the issue has found the order illegal and prevented it from taking effect. A definitive ...

That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, that President Donald Trump is seeking to redefine as part of his campaign to overturn the ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment echoes that of the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment, however, applies only against the federal government. After the Civil War, Congress adopted ...

NEW YORK — Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has made a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and ...

The movie, I'm pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works in an extremely accessible and mainstream way, has a singular gift for ...