The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is advancing on a path toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter," says civil rights attorney Damon ...

If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ...

After SCOTUS opened the door to President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the anniversary of the 14th Amendment ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

ACLU History Introduction In the years following World War I, America was gripped by the fear that the Communist Revolution that had taken place in Russia would spread to the United States. As is ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion used a noise complaint hypothetical to justify letting Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional citizenship order blare on for everyone except the specific plaintiffs ...

There were no British soldiers in the American colonies for 130 years. Colonists distrusted soldiers due to stories of brutality against civilians by soldiers under orders of tyrannical kings in ...

Critical steps in removing barriers to equality would be taken through constitutional change only after a bitterly fought Civil War. Three post-war amendments sought to make people of color in the US ...