Civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill will head the project. On March 27, Howard University launched its 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, housed within Howard University’s Law ...
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated. It may not be as oft-quoted as the First ...
When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir ...
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of ...
In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment provides people born in the U.S. citizenship at birth, even if their parents are not U.S. citizens. Immigration ...
Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal by executive fiat the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment, which the ruling class today views ...
It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our ...