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 ...

In 1966, the Sullivan and Freeman families filed a lawsuit and lost several appeals. In December 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of ...

July 2 stands out as a pivotal day in history, marked by momentous events that have shaped nations, cultures, and the course ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Supreme Court recently allowed Donald Trump to edge closer to ending Birthright Citizenship as outlined in the Fourteenth ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks. Medgar Evers. John Lewis. These names ring through history as leaders of the vast, sprawling events that constituted the Civil Rights Movement, in which African ...

California's fight to rein in President Trump's deployment of troops to Los Angeles hinges on a 19th century law with a a ...

As legal experts have explained, the text of the amendment itself disproves Trump’s claim, which the court’s conservatives — ...

Preston Terry Damsky, a white nationalist law student at the University of Florida, wrote a paper arguing that the U.S. Constitution only applies to White people. He claimed that the words "we the ...