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 ...

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 ...

The 14th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1866 and ratified by the states in 1868. Enacted after the Civil War, the disqualification clause aimed to keep former Confederate civil and military ...

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.

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 on Jan. 6, 2021.

The former president wrote off the 14th Amendment efforts on two radio shows Thursday, saying the real insurrectionists are those who "rigged the election" in 2020.

The 14th Amendment is currently on the research side. This section is called the "preservation room" in National Treasure. And it's supposedly less secure than the rest of the building.

"The 14th Amendment though says that 'all persons born in the United States are citizens.' Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?" NBC's Kristen Welker asked Trump on ...

Trump is running despite the 14th Amendment. He’s not the first insurrectionist to do so A statue of Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton on the grounds of the South Carolina State House.

Mr. Foner is the author of “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.” The 14th Amendment, added to the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War, has ...