Fourteenth Amendment

Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.

After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.

It’s about more than immigration.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

The 1954 Supreme Court decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, declared that “separate but equal” has no place in education.

A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.

Even after Wong Kim Ark successfully took his case to the Supreme Court 125 years ago, Asian Americans struggled to receive recognition as U.S. citizens.

The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.

Their plan required not only a social and legal division along racial lines but a political one, too — a separation that persists today.

Two new books make a devastating case against claims that the Constitution should be interpreted on the basis of its purported “original meaning.”

On the persistent myth of the colorblind Constitution that the Supreme Court's conservatives have embraced.

How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism.

The story of Motley's legal career prior to Brown v. Board, and her crucial participation in it.

Tying the fight for equal rights to the founders and the Constitution has worked before.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

The Court’s striking down of a New York gun law relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record that excludes women and people of color.