The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to undo lower court rulings blocking his bid to end birthright citizenship.

"Either a crazy theory or a dishonest interpretation" Experts agree that the text of the 14th Amendment is clear, and that Trump’s interpretation doesn't pass muster. Harvard Law School ...

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals Thursday to allow him to ...

And beyond that, nothing in the text says that’s a limit. If U.S. law in 1868, when we ratified the 14th Amendment, already held that children born to people in the U.S. as tourists or on a ...

As it pushes to implement a plan to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is counting on an argument about out ...

The Fourteenth Amendment framers were responding to southern ... Will arguments grounded in the principle of protection sway the courts? The text and history of the Equal Protection Clause are ...

A cross-country storm will explode in strength as it moves over the central United States today, delivering extreme weather to millions through the weekend. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up ...