Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter suggested the Supreme Court should overturn or weaken the 14th Amendment.

The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits racial discrimination in districting. By parity of logic, it prohibits partisan discrimination in districting. The Court protects both.

President Carter referred to one office as being superior to all others in American democracy: the citizen. But powerful forces are seeking to redefine that highest office as part of a larger effort ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

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 ...

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 ...

United States senator from Kentucky Rand Paul argues that illegal immigration was being used to obtain citizenship benefits.

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 ...

“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 ...