A City Council committee Friday approved a motion seeking to prohibit the use of two specific offensive epithets during civic meetings. The Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee ...

The 14th Amendment has been called the cornerstone of civil rights in America, but in reality, it has become something entirely different: - A legal loophole for judicial activism. - A blank check for ...

A class action lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge argues two state laws concerning justices of the peace violate the 14th Amendment ...

This was done through the passage and ratification of the 22nd Amendment, which became part of the U.S. Constitution ... term in which they weren’t elected president. Here’s an example: If a vice ...

The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University School of Law, about the opening the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy.

Howard University - the historically Black school here - opens a center today dedicated to the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War. It establishes ...