By: Guy Gugliotta       SC Daily Gazette The first words of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution tell us that “all persons born or naturalized?

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in ...

Trump and now-Vice President J.D. Vance last summer repeated the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were stealing neighbors’ pets and eating them. That prompted dozens of bomb threats to ...

The 14th Amendment has been called the cornerstone of civil rights in America, but in reality, it has become something entirely different: - A legal loophole for judicial activism. - A blank check for ...

His automatic status as a newborn American citizen came courtesy of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 and overruled the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision that excluded U.S.-born ...

The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868, soon after the Civil War. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject ...

Following the Civil War in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, but it's in the spotlight now with critics calling for its end. President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive ...