You Searched For "fourteenth amendment" and got 20 results
Sort By:
3 mins read
The Chinese American cook whose Supreme Court case changed who gets to be a citizen
Born in San Francisco, Wong Kim Ark challenged his right to US citizenship after being detained. Hi…
DeArbea Walker
1 min read
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito suggested that laws banning conversion therapy may violate the First Amendment
"It is beyond dispute that these laws restrict speech, and all restrictions on speech merit careful…
Madison Hall
2 mins read
Watchdog group says it will try to use the 14th amendment to disqualify Trump from running for president again in 2024
In sending a letter to the former president, CREW noted that a local official in New Mexico was rem…
Bryan Metzger
2 mins read
A sheriff told a Wisconsin teenager to take down a COVID-19 Instagram post. A judge ruled it a First Amendment violation.
"The First Amendment is not a game setting for the government to toggle off and on. It applies in t…
Sarah Al-Arshani
2 mins read
Trump is ineligible to appear on Maine's primary ballot, secretary of state rules
Maine is the second state to attempt to ban Trump from the 2024 primary election following a Colora…
Erin Snodgrass,Lloyd Lee
2 mins read
Why 4 GOP voters filed the lawsuit that eventually disqualified Trump from the Colorado 2024 primary ballot
Some of the petitioners in the lawsuit that threatens Donald Trump's placement on the ballots have …
Lloyd Lee
2 mins read
An Arkansas man is taking his utility company to court over $50. He's asking for the money he would have gotten if he had invested the check.
An Arkansas man took a major energy company to court over a $50 deposit from 2016, that he claims h…
Lauren Steussy,Azmi Haroun
6 mins read
Trump has laid the groundwork for a US Supreme Court challenge in his NY civil fraud case: experts
In three years of litigation, Trump never opposed NY attorney general Letitia James on Constitution…
Laura Italiano
2 mins read
Dozens of jailed kids, nearly all of them Black, must be removed from a former Louisiana death row unit after facing cruel punishment, judge says
The children have been incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the nation's largest adult…
Katie Hawkinson
2 mins read
Trump could be charged with breaking a law that was passed to stop the KKK from terrorizing former slaves
The special counsel Jack Smith's office laid out three laws Trump could be prosecuted over in conne…
Sonam Sheth
2 mins read
Supreme Court allows military academies to continue race-based admissions, citing 'potentially distinct interests'
Justice Sotomayor noted the exemption in her dissenting opinion, arguing it "highlights the arbitra…
Bryan Metzger
2 mins read
The world's biggest publisher is suing a Florida school district for banning books by writers including Toni Morrison and Khaled Hosseini
Penguin Random House and PEN America filed a lawsuit against Escambia County School District after …
Ryan Hogg
3 mins read
Controversial three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional for death row inmates in Oklahoma, federal judge rules
The plaintiffs argued that there was "a substantial risk" that the protocol would "produce severe p…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
1 min read
Ex-Trump White House lawyer believes Trump gave 'aid and comfort to the insurrectionists'
Ty Cobb told CNN's Erin Burnett Tuesday that Trump's tweet calling out Pence and the three hours of…
Rebecca Cohen
3 mins read
Federal appeals court allows Texas abortion ban to stay in place while it considers Biden administration lawsuit
A panel of federal judges rejected the Department of Justice's attempt to block enforcement of the …
Grace Panetta
3 mins read
The migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard have filed a federal lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleging a 'premeditated, fraudulent, and illegal scheme,' after he chartered planes to move them
The lawsuit describes the migrants' experiences of escaping a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, "on…
Nicole Gaudiano,Kimberly Leon…
2 mins read
William Barr says working with Trump sometimes felt like 'Groundhog Day,' with advisors taking turns on who would 'eat the grenade'
Barr details in his new memoir how Trump was a "hyperactive generator of ideas," though many of the…
Oma Seddiq,Grace Panetta
2 mins read
A new law lets Illinois homeowners remove racist language from deeds, including clauses saying a house can never be sold to Black or Jewish people
Despite being outlawed decades ago, racial covenants remain on property deeds throughout the US, an…
Kelsey Vlamis
2 mins read
Susan Collins slams Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh over 'completely inconsistent' draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade
Collins said the justices potentially misled her on their positions on abortion rights during their…
Brent D. Griffiths
5 mins read
What does it mean to overturn abortion rights, and how can the Supreme Court do it?
A leaked draft opinion suggests the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, tossing almost 50…