“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 ...

With one signature, President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship where children born here were U.S. citizens even if their parents weren't.

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 ...

The 14th Amendment, passed by Congress in June 1866 and ratified in July 1868, starts by declaring "All persons born or naturalized in the United States ... are citizens of the United States and of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Come and get me, President Donald J. Trump. Because it’s apparent that our reimposed president doesn’t give a whit about the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment ...

The beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by a surge in executive orders, some of which have generated intense political and legal debates. At the time of publication, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — With federal immigration agents in Raleigh and beyond, there’s confusion about when immigration agents ...