President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in 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.
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 Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.
Could the end of birthright citizenship — or a third Trump term — actually happen? The post What Does It Take To Amend The Constitution? It’s A *Process* first appeared on Her Campus.
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.
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.
Ratified by the states in 1868, the 14th Amendment holds that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.” Crucially, it doesn’t matter who the child’s parents are or where they are from.
Sanctions would endanger the investigation of war crimes across the globe and prove a grave blow to human rights.
Will California become an independent country and exit the United States of America? California Secretary of State Shirley Weber recently approved a campaign to gather signatures petitioning for a vote on whether the Golden State should leave the U.