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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

It’s National Women’s History Month so it seems like a good time to tell you that the words “Equal Justice Under Law,” which are carved in stone on the outside of the Supreme Court building in ...

When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. It took a while for the 14th Amendment to live up to its promise of guaranteeing all Americans equal rights under the law. But, nearly 90 years ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

When the 14th amendment was ratified after the Civil War, it redefined what it meant to be an American. Today on the show, we ...

Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...