President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday evening targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of ...

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the ...

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.

The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The author says executive order stripping US citizenship from children born in this country, protected by the 14th Amendment, could imperil other constitutional amendments.

The Justice Department sent an emergency request to limit their scope. The order attempts to reinterpret the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to nearly anyone born in the U.S. and guarantees ...

These states attorney generals’ argument is that birthright citizenship is a right granted to anyone born on American soil, by the 14th Amendment. But does it? The 14th Amendment to the U.S ...

Sean O'Driscoll is a Newsweek Senior Crime and Courts Reporter based in Ireland. His focus is reporting on U.S. law. He has covered human rights and extremism extensively. Sean joined Newsweek in ...

Trump signed executive order to end birthright citizenship The 14th Amendment says 'all persons born in US' are citizens ...