WASHINGTON (WHSV) - Almost 160 years ago on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was proposed in the wake of the Civil War as a way to, among other ...

We are having the wrong argument about the 14th Amendment. The debate should not center on birthright citizenship (a ...

Fix the 14th Amendment, Not the Court ...

Rep. Analilia Mejia approached Democratic leaders with an idea to form a task force examining how attacks on the amendment ...

The constitutional amendment, ratified after the Civil War, was at the center of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling.

In the 1860s, citizenship was not only extended but defined more narrowly than the chief justice acknowledges.

The ruling on the Supreme Court’s biggest case of the term is in. The court found in Trump v. Barbara that the 14th Amendment ...

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal protections for Black people in the U.S. after slavery was abolished. What ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment was adopted. The finding appeared to undercut the president’s claims on ...