The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in Trump v. Barbara. The Court will get to decide a case that reaches far beyond the usual debates over immigration policy. President Trump ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday, May 15 over President Donald Trump's bid to follow through with an executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship in the first broad ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...

When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal by executive fiat the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment, which the ruling class today views ...

“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 ...