Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

CONCORD, N.H. — Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The lawsuit is ...

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The Trump administration has identified three ways it plans to use to put pressure on companies to eliminate their “DEI” programs: Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Title VII, and ...

This concern became the impetus for the 14th Amendment to “constitutionalize” the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The citizenship clause was a late addition to the amendment.