Eisner is a Ph.D. student in history at Johns Hopkins University. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University ...

Some lawsuits invoke the Equal Protection Clause of the 14 th amendment which was ratified after slavery was abolished and ...

President Joe Biden, along with many commentators, has speculated that a president can bypass Congress by using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. But we have no precedent for how that would ...

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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 ...

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars current and former federal, state and military officials who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country from holding office again.

Illinois gun owners had their Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to a new assault weapon ban tossed on Tuesday after a ...

Does the Civil War-era insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment disqualify Donald Trump from holding higher office? The court will hear a… It's the first time the nation's highest court will ...

Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens of the states were automatically considered citizens of the United States. In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no ...

The Utah Supreme Court has agreed to decide if Amendment D will go on the November ballot. On Saturday, the state’s top court ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our ...

In the late 1860s, when the 14th Amendment was written and ratified, the same was true – though the right to vote was limited to men until 1920, and states have often denied or abridged the ...