President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
Last Friday, former President Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land" - so why has it failed to become the nation's 28th constitutional amendment.
President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.
Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve discussed, unilaterally deny citizenship to certain people born in the United States, against the clear direction of the Constitution.
President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to have been ratified. His statement “affirm[ed] what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land,
Donald Trump yesterday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then promptly broke that oath by seeking to revoke the first sentence of
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 its own.
The president’s executive order would purportedly end a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. But that's not how this works.
With one signature, President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship where children born here were U.S. citizens even if their parents weren't.
Sanctions would endanger the investigation of war crimes across the globe and prove a grave blow to human rights.
It's foolish to try to predict what the courts are going to do, particularly when dealing with historic legal questions, but the writing may be on wall for this one.
Karoline Leavitt’s debut White House press briefing comments about condoms and the truth also drew intense scrutiny.