The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who ...

Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...

it’s instructive to look at litigation involving rights granted under a Reconstruction-era addition to the Constitution. “The selectivity about whom the Fourteenth Amendment ought to apply to ...

Filmmaker, author, and California resident Mike Cenrnovich calls on the Trump administration to perform an "reconstruction" ...

It’s the part of the Constitution that guarantees all Americans something Republicans despise: equal protection under the law ...

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...

Observing a joyous children’s holiday parade in the Louisiana parish she calls home, Clara LaFleur said that she isn’t ...

It is one of the most important accomplishments of the Reconstruction era ... and equal protection under the law: the Fourteenth Amendment. What makes this amendment so important is that it ...

The suppression of freedom in the southern states convinced the Reconstruction Congress and supporters ... But rather than eradicate state autonomy, the people embraced the Fourteenth Amendment that ...

Lebanon's Parliament elected army chief Gen Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a power vacuum that had persisted ...

For instance, they go back to the wording of the 14th Amendment and latch onto ... As one of the Reconstruction amendments, it was intended to ensure that freed slaves were recognized as U.S ...

Ali Velshi on the threat posed to our rights and freedoms by Trump's plans to end birthright citizenship guaranteed by our Constitution ...