The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment ...

Former President Trump reignited the debate over birthright citizenship with a proposal that could challenge the 14th ...

States are rushing to implement laws and regulations to deny AI personhood as chatbots and autonomous tech grow in popularity ...

The 14th Amendment is often taught as a milestone of post–Civil War Reconstruction — but rarely do we hear about the individuals whose voices shaped it. One of them was Frances Thompson, a formerly ...

The oral decision on DeFunis v. Odegaard was delivered at the Superior Court of King County, Washington, on Sept. 22, 1971. The case questioned whether the UW School of Law had wrongfully rejected ...

Casey is tired of coming home to her apartment every day. She feels like her home drains her energy more than her job does. Not because it’s not a nice place, and not because of anyone else who lives ...

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Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

President Donald Trump told Politico that it would be “devastating” if the Supreme Court struck down his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In a wide-ranging interview with ...

F.9 The Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) aims to incubate citizen science projects as they are being conceived or during critical transitions, like the year when they are first launched or ...