Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections ...

EXECUTIVE ORDER IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WITHIN HOURS OF TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE, PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT WOULD END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. WHILE IT WAS A CAMPAIGN PROMISE, CAL ...

On Inauguration Day, President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders, including one attacking birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is the practice of granting anyone born on U.S. soil ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...