Alabama’s chief elections officer seems to despise democracy. Wes Allen has spent the vast majority of his public career ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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 ...

Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage’s annual Constitution Day program, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

Two dozen Republican-led states urged the Supreme Court to side with President Donald Trump in his argument that birthright citizenship should be curtailed.

The passage of Proposition 15, with 70% of the vote, makes Texas the first state to add parental rights to its founding ...

Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen on Sunday told CNN anchor Jim Acosta that the 14th Amendment is an “ace in the hole” for President Joe Biden in the debt ceiling fight, which comes to a head on Monday ...

House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in ...

“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 ...