Birthright Citizenship, 14th Amendment
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After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment applies to children born in the U.S. to mothers who are in the country illegally, there is a renewed effort in Congress to support a constitutional amendment to provide clarity to the amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
Voters in Wisconsin might be able to vote on the future of abortion in the state. Dianne Hesselbein, the top Democrat in the State Senate, last week proposed a constitutional amendment on abortion if Democrats win back the legislature in November.
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made.
This November, North Carolina voters will get the chance to change the state constitution by filling in bubbles on their ballots. The Republican-controlled General Assembly has so far placed three proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot ...
President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling that states can ban transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports teams. The ruling
This decision means that all children born in the U.S., regardless of whether their parents are documented or undocumented, are U.S. citizens.
