The 14th Amendment’s future is sure to feature prominently in Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. If confirmed this fall, he will join the court in time to decide one of the biggest 14th Amendment ...

The nation’s highest court has never ruled on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. Continue reading. Jan 09 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will issue its final rulings of its current term on Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts said. It has ...

The schedule sets up a blockbuster last day at the Supreme Court in which the justices will hand down six opinions in some of ...

Wong Kim Ark was not the only Chinese American San Franciscan — or even the first — to shape a fundamental part of the 14th Amendment. The San Francisco cook’s late 19th-century struggle ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for what he calls “gate crashers.” Trump argued that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship ...

But the 14th Amendment never envisioned this reality. Section 1, with its promise of civil equality, was written to obliterate laws that applied disproportionately to one race.

Just eight days out from the Senate GOP’s self-imposed (read: Donald Trump–imposed) July 4 deadline to pass the president’s ...

The Court “will strip those South Carolinians—and countless other Medicaid recipients around the country—of a deeply personal ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes new filings to the Supreme Court as it prepares to hear oral arguments in Donald Trump’s challenge of a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that found he ...

Hi Brian, It’s true that the 14th Amendment repudiated the infamous Dred Scott ruling, which had denied citizenship to people of African descent.But it doesn’t follow from that premise to say ...