“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

Birthright citizenship refers to the legal principle of jus soli, or 'right of the soil,' where individuals born in a territory automatically receive citizenship. In the United States, this principle ...

An Indiana mother, Nicole Graves, is suing her school district for alleged violations of her First and 14th Amendment rights. Graves recorded a meeting with the principal after her daughter filmed a ...