In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions ...

But this modern understanding of “birthright citizenship” isn’t what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended — and ...

Ronald Allen, a Northwestern Law School Professor, joins Karen Conti to discuss two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that were handed down this week. Ronald touches on the issue of birthright ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a major decision scaling back the power of federal judges to block presidential ...

Effective immediately, the Trump administration can begin planning for how it would implement an end to birthright ...

On March 27, Howard University launched its 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, housed within Howard University’s Law School. Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill was recently appointed ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University School of Law, about the opening the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy.

The 14th Amendment’s future is sure to feature prominently in Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. If confirmed this fall, he will join the court in time to decide one of the biggest 14th Amendment ...

Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps “The Constitution will hereafter be read by the light of emancipation” ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship in the US, meaning any child born in the country is *** citizen with some very limited exceptions.