Fourteenth Amendment

Lin might not be playing for the Knicks, or for any other team in the NBA, if the anti-immigrant restrictionists had their way.

Future debt ceiling crises can be averted by enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment, which mandates that the government pay its debts already incurred, including pensions. That means Social Security.

If I were a hobbit, right about now I would be wondering just how the heck I wound up at the center of this Washington intraparty political fight, personally.

My Fellow Americans: Today, for the first time in American history, the Congress of the United States has effectively prohibited the government fr...

It's a pretty safe bet that the issue will (at least temporarily) be resolved by the fifth of August, at the absolute latest. Bank on it. The reason for such certainty is a simple one.

A Better Life show that the dreams of immigrant parents for their children, and the struggles of such children to forge their own identities, are not just Latino, Asian, European, or African immigrant stories. These are American stories.

If the president cannot pay off America's creditors and keep all government programs running, what legal authority does he have to deal with the crisis?

McConnell's proposal to cede Congressional power to the president is itself unconstitutional for the same reason that the line-item veto was unconstitutional. Congress does not have the power to cede its power to the executive branch.

An important debate flared this week -- one in which sides were chosen, positions staked out, and invective hurled. I will let that sentence stand in...

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sens. David Vitter (La.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) are seeking to deny birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants...

Justice Antonin Scalia is set to provide Constitutional lessons at an event organized by Rep. Michele Bachmann. Let's hope the audience also hears from those who respect the constitutional rights of women.

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the key women's-rights groups joined congressional Democrats at the Capitol Thursday to warn that Supreme Court Justice Anto...

The newly-Republican House of Representatives is going to start off their tenure reading the entire Constitution on the floor of the House. There's one problem with this: Who gets to read the uncomfortable bits?

When you hear that birthright citizenship is not part of the America conceived by the Founding Fathers, take a strong drink of skepticism.

What else do we call the deliberate inciting of racial bigotry and resentment for the sake of attaining power? It's race-baiting and it's a major component of the Republican strategic arsenal.

The Court's narrow focus on America's constitutional founding fathers obscures the importance of America's second founding that came with the abolition and the Civil War.

Republican leaders have proposed amending the Constitution to deny citizenship to children born in the US but whose parents are undocumented. As law professors we oppose this, not only for historical and legal reasons, but on deeply personal grounds.

Roughly 70 percent of America's prisoners are black and brown because the laws target communities of color. For-profit prison owners know this more than anyone.

Former aides to the George W. Bush Administration are retaliating against a recent flurry of Republican calls for a repeal or readdressing of the 14th...

The Constitution, we're being told, isn't human history's finest effort to codify and honor the inalienable rights of persons; it's a loophole for illegal immigrants.

The LGBT community has always marched towards equality in small, incremental steps. Today, though, bold gestures seem to be winning the struggle.