The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to undo lower court rulings blocking his bid to end birthright citizenship.

South Carolina is one of 18 states that joined a Supreme Court brief supporting an executive order to end birthright ...

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that “when the right ... is that the Southern newspapers in 1868 correctly read the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment represented a great expansion ... but that challenge was blocked by the Courts." Read the full text ...

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment ... they would not read parts of the text that had been removed by amendment.

That decree, which contradicted the text of the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent, ran into legal trouble three days later, when John Coughenour, a federal judge in Washington ...

They ended the last term by doing just the opposite, ruling that gay marriage was mandated by the 14th Amendment because the meaning of the text had evolved over time. If our current understanding ...

Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...

And beyond that, nothing in the text says that’s a limit. If U.S. law in 1868, when we ratified the 14th Amendment, already held that children born to people in the U.S. as tourists or on a ...