“Allowing the president to unilaterally redefine who gets to be a U.S. citizen in states subject to Trump’s rewriting of the ...

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, established that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ...

Trump’s limitation on the 14th Amendment echoes legal theories, previously on the fringe, that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US would not reach undocumented immigrants.

What does the 14th Amendment say about citizenship by birth The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 coming out of the Civil War, granting citizenship and rights to formerly enslaved people.

Anderson. In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed upon it an ahistorical misinterpretation that defies both its plain text and its original meaning.

Finding the 14th Amendment was easier said than done. My search started back in January at the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. I checked every thick glass case — no document.

Finding the 14th Amendment was easier said than done. My search started back in January at the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. I checked every thick glass case — no document.

Both Maine and Colorado have barred Trump from their primary ballots, citing the 14th Amendment. In Maine’s ruling Thursday evening, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said that Trump “engaged in ...

Colorado and Maine both cite what is known as the Disqualification Clause (Section Three of the 14th Amendment) as their basis for removing Trump from their state's primary ballots.