As time runs short on the nation's ability to pay its bills and the threat of the first-ever default looms, President Joe Biden says invoking the 14th Amendment to address the debt ceiling has ...

It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and ...

As the nation heads toward a potential default, possibly as soon as June 1, President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some Democrats to use the 14th Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling.

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our ...

Separate from the legal troubles Trump is facing in federal and state courts, these efforts invoke what is also known as the disqualification clause, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme ...

Gore in 2000. Officials in both Colorado and Maine have ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible for their ballots because he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — by engaging in insurrection ...

But in recent weeks, a once-obscure idea has come to the forefront. Some legal scholars point to a clause in the 14th Amendment that says the “validity of the public debt, authorized by law ...

David Cicilline (D-R.I.) also sent a letter to colleagues asking them to join him in sponsoring legislation that disqualifies Trump from the presidency because of the 14th Amendment. The letter ...

The truth is that the Treasury has more than ample revenue coming in each month to avoid defaulting on the debt, and Mr. Biden doesn’t need to distort the meaning of the 14th Amendment to do it.

What is the 14th Amendment, and could it be an option for resolving the debt-ceiling impasse? Even as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sound upbeat notes about a deal to ...

Anti-Trump challengers have succeeded at using the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado and Maine, though those ...