The Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of Chinese ...

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown on Wednesday said he expects the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme ...

A three-judge panel asked a U.S. Justice Department attorney about "the ordinary meaning" of the 14th Amendment while ...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court appeared likely on Wednesday to conclude that President Donald Trump's ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

“The Fourteenth Amendment has been ... scope of civic life that wasn’t considered during its ratification in 1868. Chief ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 coming out of the Civil War, granting citizenship and rights to formerly enslaved people. Section 1 states, "all persons born or naturalized in the United ...

The 14th amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, to grant citizenship and equal protection of the law to anyone “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved Black ...