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 ...

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United States.

Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...

This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the work of ensuring their enforcement. On July 9, 1868, South Carolina became ...

What the Florida Supreme Court just did to voting rights is fairly described by the famous words of the French politicienne, Jeanne-Marie Roland, as she was being guillotined in 1793: “Oh, Liberty, ...