25 years later, we’re still feeling the damage from Bush v. Gore

The five justices who stopped the Florida recount took a first step toward entrenching Republican control of the federal ...
PBS

Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Disenfranchising Felons

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 ...
Yahoo

14th Amendment was ratified 157 years ago to grant citizenship to Black Americans. MAGA is now reshaping it

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Supreme Court’s ‘colorblindness’ would gut Voting Rights Act

If the oral arguments are any indication, the Supreme Court may be about to achieve a remarkably bizarre outcome: using the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to overturn a key provision of ...