The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara does more than uphold a broad view of birthright citizenship. It reads into the Fourteenth Amendment a sweeping right for foreign nationals that the text ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With its executive order, the government is claiming to want to restore the original ...

A decade ago, I wrote a cover story for Reason magazine titled "Trump vs. the Constitution." It explained how then-candidate Donald Trump's call to abolish the constitutional guarantee of birthright ...

Ava DuVernay and editor producer Spencer Averick discuss her latest doc "14th" and the historical effects of the ...

The text of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment declares: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In our last column, we imagined grilling Solicitor General D. John Sauer in a moot court on birthright citizenship. Today, we ...

The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. Ratified after the Civil War, this amendment transformed the Constitution forever and ...

The movie, I'm pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works ...