Federal judges have allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat. The map targets the state’s only swing seat, held ...
Voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50 in November, which changed the maps to give Democrats even more of an advantage ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco ruled in July that a group of states that sued over the order ...
Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...
GENESEO — Activist group Genesee Valley Indivisible has set a new date and location for its previously postponed lecture on the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Civil War-era historian and ...
A federal appeals court on Friday dealt a major setback to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, ruling that his executive order to end birthright citizenship violates the Constitution and ...
Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning."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 ...
Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...
The Civil War ended 160 years ago. The racist Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War era were outlawed in the 1960s. It is time for the United States to uphold the words of the 14th Amendment to the ...
The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...
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 ...