Ramirez, 1974) the Supreme Court held that felon disenfranchisement laws did not violate Section 2, in part because the 14th Amendment expressly countenances restricting the right to vote on the basis ...

Where, you ask? They continue: Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that if a state denies the franchise to anyone eligible to vote, its allotment of House seats shall be “reduced in the ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues.

It fails to recognize that the same word covers two distinctly different ideas: 1) complete, political jurisdiction; and 2) partial ... of the first section of the fourteenth amendment, than ...

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.