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 ...

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 ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

After SCOTUS opened the door to President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the anniversary of the 14th Amendment takes on an added significance. The anniversary of the ratification of the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – After a federal court ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, searches for the 14th Amendment have surged on Google. In ...

The conservative Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear full arguments over President Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, the longstanding edict rooted in the 14th Amendment, which says that ...

The ratifiers of the 14th Amendment could not have contemplated excluding the children of unlawful entrants, because the ...

“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 ...