The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to people assigned female at birth. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive ...

The case has far-reaching consequences and could fundamentally redefine the 14th amendment, an addendum to the U.S. Constitution that provided citizenship to formerly enslaved African Americans.

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...

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 ...

Last week, the House passed a bill seeking to "clarify" the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark ...

“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 ...