A law professor at Florida International University writes that, even from an originalist perspective, birthright citizenship ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a new paper, I examine, along with a co-author (James Heilpern), whether "subject to the jurisdiction" would have had a familiar legal meaning to lawyers in the mid-nineteenth century, and if so ...

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 ...

While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating ...

Even some of the justices named by Trump during his first term don’t seem to be buying it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

We need to consider the need for a 28th Amendment to reaffirm the meaning of citizenship.

The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to people assigned female at birth. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive ...

“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 ...