While progressives love to claim fealty to the First Amendment, they actually have used the Fourteenth Amendment to squash ...

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the primary way plaintiffs can challenge racially discriminatory election practices ...

The legal remedies for all federal and state anti-discrimination laws, the Voting Rights Act included, by necessity consider and use race in order to cure race discrimination.

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

The Supreme Court is considering whether Louisiana's intentional creation of a second majority-Black district violates the ...

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 ...

Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Louisiana v. Callais, a challenge to the congressional ...

Federal court rejects Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, citing historical precedent and Constitutional ...

An amendment making parental decisions a constitutional right would not supersede any state or federal laws, attorneys who support the bill told ...