President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...

Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great personal cost ...

“Asian immigrants were the first immigrants to the US ... follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence ...