Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship in the U.S., an interpretation the Trump admin. is fighting.

After SCOTUS opened the door to President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the anniversary of the 14th Amendment takes on an added significance. The anniversary of the ratification of the ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

The concept of birthright citizenship is clearly defined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, our nation’s most fundamental legal document. Everyone born in the United States is automatically a ...

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 ...

President Trump issued an executive order to strip U.S. citizenship from children born in the country to illegal immigrants, but the order was temporarily blocked by federal judges. The judges deemed ...