Before the Civil War, states didn’t necessarily have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had ...

Eventually, the amendment would be interpreted to apply most provisions in the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ...

CNN spoke with several experts in immigration law to better understand what rights immigrants do and don’t have and what ...

This essay will address substantive due process and the use of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause as a vehicle for incorporating selected provisions of the Bill of Rights against the ...

(Emphasis added.) As the debate over the 14th Amendment makes clear, the shift in language from the 1866 Civil Rights Act to what became the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was not ...

against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular ... it must be found in some other source, such as the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause. The earliest mention ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University School of Law, about the opening the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy.

It’s vital for Americans to understand and reject the false narrative that non-citizens living in the United States are ...

A class action lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge argues two state laws concerning justices of the peace violate the 14th Amendment ...

Supporters of the bill argue that it is a necessary step to prevent foreign interference in elections, while others said that it could infringe on First and 14th Amendment rights. Kansas Gov.