President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

The Reconstruction Amendments, including the 14th, sought to dismantle a system that had denied millions of people their humanity and legal rights. Birthright citizenship was a profound ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...