This article explores the legal, historical, and cultural implications of this potential assault on our founding principles. The case before the Supreme Court challenges the long-standing ...

Does the Civil War-era insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment disqualify Donald Trump from holding higher office? The court will hear a… It's the first time the nation's highest court will ...

I’m not a lawyer; maybe that helps me understand the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship better than J. Christian Adams (“Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is wrong ...

How has the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the 14th Amendment in the past? An 1898 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark is considered the historical standard that children born ...

It was a civil and highly substantive debate focusing on the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. I confess it did not change my views on the subject, but I found it quite worthwhile.

His argument rests on interpreting the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," found in the 14th Amendment, which codified birthright citizenship into the Constitution. Trump claims that ...

Please stick with me; I used to think it was true. Then I read the Supreme Court cases purportedly saying the 14th Amendment automatically makes a child born in the United States an American citizen.