Ramirez, 1974) the Supreme Court held that felon disenfranchisement laws did not violate Section 2, in part because the 14th Amendment expressly countenances restricting the right to vote on the basis ...

Where, you ask? They continue: Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that if a state denies the franchise to anyone eligible to vote, its allotment of House seats shall be “reduced in the ...

South Carolina is one of 18 states that joined a Supreme Court brief supporting an executive order to end birthright ...

Article I, Section 2: This provision offers evidence ... This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea ...

The unborn are not persons within the scope of any clause of the Constitution other than its due process and equal protection clauses, particularly not within Section 2 of the 14th Amendment ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues.

It construed Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment as granting states an “affirmative sanction” to disenfranchise those convicted of criminal offenses,65 and therefore reversed theCalifornia ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: However, as so often is the case, this reaffirmed ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The judges deemed the order a violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The author argues that if the Supreme Court upholds Trump's order ...

arguing that it was clear Trump engaged in insurrection in the… The nation’s highest court has never ruled on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits those who “engaged in ...

Carine Harb is Associate Editor at Newsweek, specializing in the My Turn section and expert-related ... ruling the order unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The amendment, passed in 1868 ...