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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/16/2021
Congress Must Invoke the 14th Amendment to Stop Trump from Running Again
by Tom Coleman and John C. Danforth
A former Congressman and former Senator, both Republicans from Missouri, demand that Congress invoke the 14th Amendment's provisions on insurrection to bar Donald Trump from holding office in the future.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/12/2021
Impeachment May Not Work. Here’s the Next Best Way to Dump Trump
by Eric Foner
The 14th Amendment empowers Congress to bar persons involved in insurrection against the United States from holding office. This can't remove Trump, but it can stop him (and anyone found to have plotted the Capitol rioting) from returning to office.
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8/30/2020
Constitutional Textualism and Congressional Debate Over the 14th Amendment
by Alan J. Singer
Supreme Court decisions based on text without context have been responsible for some of the greatest perversions of justice in United States history, mostly around denying the scope of authority the 14th Amendment grants to the government to enforce civil equality.
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SOURCE: Vox
8/14/2020
Birtherism 2.0
by Matthew Yglesias
Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this.
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8/16/2020
Of Course Kamala Harris is a Citizen
by Derek Litvak
John Eastman's claims that Kamala Harris is not a natural-born U.S. citizen fly in the face of 14th Amendment jurisprudence and Eastman's own prior defenses of Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency.
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8/16/2020
Citizenship, the 14th Amendment, and Trump’s War on Undocumented Immigrants
by Alan J. Singer
Recent attacks on Kamala Harris's citizenship and eligibility to serve as Vice President depend on willful misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment and ignorance of the specific racist injustices it was written to prevent.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/16/2020
US Congress could Use Reconstruction-Era Civil Rights Powers to Protect Black Lives Today
by Richard Johnson
The U.S. House of Representatives could use a provision of the 14th Amendment to strip congressional representation from states that suppress the voting rights of black residents.
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9/1/19
Restricting Automatic Citizenship to Children Born to Americans Serving Abroad Is Only the Latest Effort by Trump to Dismantle Birthright Citizenship
by Derek Litvak
Trump and conservatives are attempting a wholesale constitutional revolution by dismantling birthright citizenship. Here's why birthright citizenship is so historically important.
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1/16/19
William Barr Needs a History Lesson
by Derek Litvak
When conservatives claim birthright citizenship is not a part of the Constitution, they are ignoring America’s long history of slavery, discrimination, and segregation.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
12-4-18
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
by Manisha Sinha
Donald Trump wants to destroy the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship. But before he sought to eliminate it outright, his elite predecessors mangled, misread, and misused the amendment in the service of capital.
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10/31/18
UPDATED Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship?
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-26-18
The 14th Amendment, the one that empowered the Bill of Rights, turned 150 this past weekend
by T.J. Stiles
Before the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected almost no one.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-19-18
Martha Jones sets the record straight about birthright citizenship
A Trump official claimed that birthright citizenship rests on a “deliberate misreading” of the 14th Amendment.
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7/29/18
Black Bostonians in the 19th Century Thought the 14th Amendment Didn’t Do Enough to Protect Black Voting Rights
by Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood
They were correct.
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SOURCE: The Nation
7-9-18
We Should Embrace the Ambiguity of the 14th Amendment
by Eric Foner
A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-8-18
Let’s Celebrate the 14th Amendment
by Amanda Brickell Bellows
It granted citizenship to African-Americans — an achievement worth remembering.
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