Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...

It’s the part of the Constitution that guarantees all Americans something Republicans despise: equal protection under the law ...

President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as ...

Opinion columnists for The Hill called on Congress to invoke the 14th Amendment disqualification to block President-elect Trump from taking office next month. In a column published Thursday ...

Trump, meanwhile, has promised to challenge the 14th Amendment with an executive order rescinding the principle of birthright citizenship. He’s admitted that ending birthright citizenship could ...

By Peter Baker Erica L. Green and Annie Karni Reporting from Washington President Biden declared on Friday that he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification ...

Once a state ratifies, that’s it. In the case of the 14th Amendment, several states attempted to rescind their ratification but the 14th Amendment was published regardless and the rescinding ...

An amendment to the Constitution requires three-quarters of states, or 38, to ratify it. Virginia in 2020 became the 38th state to ratify the bill after it sat stagnant for decades.

In the December 4-3 vote, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from the race because of the 14th ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden moved to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution, declaring that the measure to prohibit sex-based discrimination had cleared the necessary hurdles to ...

Legal experts on Friday criticized President Joe Biden’s apparent attempt to unilaterally ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), with scholars dismissing the move as “unserious” and a ...