The U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections ...

As legal proceedings surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship move toward the country’s highest court, the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment ...

The Supreme Court agreed to review Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship after lower courts blocked his ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

They’re told repeatedly that the practice is enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th amendment, that it has been affirmed by the Supreme Court, that the jurisprudence around it is settled law and that ...

This paper certified that Wong Kim Ark was able to follow through with his plan to leave the United States and return. Three men signed this letter attesting to his identity. Included with the ...

WASHINGTON − In what could be its biggest blockbuster case of the year, the Supreme Court on May 15 will take up one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial executive orders: ending the ...

Once upon a time, doctors were convinced that using leeches and drawing the blood of patients cured illness. No matter how widely accepted that error was, leeches ...