Ava DuVernay, 14th Amendment
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DuVernay's follow-up to the Oscar-nominated '13th' premieres in New York before streaming on Netflix from December
14th, the documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that premiered Friday night as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival, begins with several American presidents taking the oath of office: FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan… each of them swearing to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
In 2005, the Supreme Court's 14th Amendment jurisprudence seemed at equipoise. The equal protection clause permitted the use of race to promote diversity in classrooms. The due process clause protected a right to abortion as a form of liberty,
Ava DuVernay’s ‘14th’ is an incendiary, must-see ‘13th’ companion tracing America’s constitutional crisis via the Fourteenth Amendment.
The National Archives Foundation and More Perfect announced today that the nationwide final vote was between the 13th and 14th amendments—in this first-of-its-kind competition among 100 historical records from the National Archives National Archives ...
Civil rights and immigrants’ rights organizations filed Nathan v. Trump in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging a new Trump administration executive order that seeks to deny citizenship to certain U.
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement: “Our Constitution is clear. Being born here means being a citizen here. Yesterday, President Trump signed two new ...
U.S. Supreme Court Building Credit: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 Rights groups in Arkansas see the potential end of birthright citizenship as yet another attack on immigrants by the Trump administration. Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20, 2025 — the ...
The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. Ratified after the Civil War, this amendment transformed the Constitution forever and is at the core of a period that many scholars refer to ...