The Maryland House Government, Labor and Elections Committee quietly, and unanimously, approved an amendment adding redistricting language to a Senate elections bill — a move Republicans warned could ...

Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to the children of temporary visitors to the United […] ...

In a brief to the Supreme Court, the administration argues that the amendment—ratified in 1868 in repudiation of the Dred Scott decision that declared Black Americans couldn’t be citizens—specifically ...

The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.

A woman sued Sacramento after the city threw away her debit card, IDs, tent, blankets, laptop, documents, dog kennels and ...

The ACLU is defending the 14th Amendment before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, challenging an executive order that would strip birthright citizenship from infants born to immigrant parents ...

An amendment that would end police investigations into abortions has received approval from the United Kingdom's House of Lords.

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 ...

In February, the Department of Justice joined a lawsuit against Los Angeles Unified School District brought by conservative activists, seeking to use the 14th Amendment to repeal a desegregation ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement ...

The Williamstown League of Women Voters will hold its annual Susan B. Anthony dinner at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the Williams Faculty Club, 968 Main St. Sara Dubow, professor of history at ...