The “born free and equal” clauses and Lawrence v. Texas

This is the third of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses ...

Justice Thomas: How does 14th Amendment's citizenship clause act as a correction of Dred Scott?

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th ...
Law

Birthright on the Brink? 14th Amendment Faces Test in Trump Policy Shift

This week on Legal Speak, we preview a Supreme Court Brief discussion highlighting conflicts between the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause and current Trump administrative policies. Over the ...
PBS

Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Disenfranchising Felons

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
c-span

Lesson Plan: 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow and Howard Law School Dean Danielle Holley-Walker discussed the reconstruction era and the changes that ...
Opinion
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Trump vs. the 14th Amendment - America's citizenship rules are back at the Supreme Court

The video examines President Donald Trump's challenge to the long-standing interpretation of the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause and whether children born in the United States to illegal ...
Mother Jones

The Case That Could Upend Who Gets to Be an American Is Back at the Supreme Court

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original ...
Wall Street Journal

Gorsuch Hints Support for Government’s Arguments on Limits of Citizenship Clause

Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed to struggle with how to square arguments against Trump’s birthright citizenship order with the exception to the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause for Native Americans.
Reason

The law that Citizenship Clause litigation forgot: the 1872 Oregon Territory citizenship statute

I am happy to pass along this guest post from my frequent collaborator, Elliott Wainwright. Since July 1868, the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause has proclaimed that "[a]ll persons born or ...
Washington Examiner

Reading (and Misreading) the 14th Amendment

That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, that President Donald Trump is seeking to redefine as part of his campaign to overturn the ...
Yahoo

House Democrats want Americans to know their 14th Amendment rights are at risk

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Analilia Mejia knew when she joined Congress in April that she wanted to use her post to highlight what she believes is an ...