The U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections ...
On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...
Amid a charged legal battle over immigration powers, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to nationwide injunctions that have blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at ...
On Inauguration Day, President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders, including one attacking birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is the practice of granting anyone born on U.S. soil ...
“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 ...