Ketanji Brown Jackson gives a history lesson on the fight to extend citizenship rights in the United States and how ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused Clarence Thomas of echoing Dred Scott by opposing the birthright citizenship ruling ...

On the final day of the Supreme Court’s current session, the justices issued a landmark 6-3 ruling affirming birthright ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked 'the dark stain of slavery' in an explosive reprimand of fellow Justice ...

The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case fueled a dispute between the court’s two Black justices that played out in ...

Activists will gather July 9 at the Supreme Court to celebrate the 14th Amendment and defend civil rights protections.

Today, Lawfare published my article "Slavery and Birthright Citizenship." Here is an excerpt: Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, is currently before the Supreme Court. At the heart of ...

In a matter of days, we will learn the Supreme Court’s decision regarding whether to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. That clause, which was ratified with the rest of the ...

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal protections for Black people in the U.S. after slavery was abolished. What ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

The Supreme Court narrowly struck down Trump’s executive order that would revoke the constitutional guarantee of birthright ...