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1868 amendment addressing citizenship rights, civil and political liberties
No—Congress did not pass a statute that strips naturalized Americans or dual citizens from federal office or force mass resignations; reporting and fact-checkers show viral claims about a “Born in Ame...
The question whether January 6, 2021, can truthfully be described as an hinges on how the event is measured against the legal and common definitions of insurrection and on competing institutional find...
Congress did not rewrite the 1807 Insurrection Act wholesale during Reconstruction, but it supplemented the federal enforcement toolbox with new statutes—most notably the Enforcement Acts (including t...
The Second Amendment’s full text reads: This wording is stable across constitutional records and legal summaries and is the central fact from which modern legal disputes and scholarly debates proceed ...
A federal conviction does not automatically bar someone from serving in the U.S. House or Senate because the Constitution sets only three qualifications — age, citizenship and inhabitancy — for congre...
Constitutional protections—principally the First Amendment’s free‑speech guarantee and the Fourteenth Amendment’s incorporation and disqualification provisions—shape how and when the government can br...
The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Allen v. Milligan (June 8, 2023) upheld the continued, fact‑intensive application of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a ruling advocates and courts said wo...
Gerrymandering is a decisive force reshaping Texas congressional district demographics by enabling the party controlling map drawing to engineer district boundaries that racial and partisan groups, pr...
Donald Trump’s birth certificate, like any U.S.-birth record, traditionally serves as primary documentary evidence that a person was born on U.S. soil and therefore *eligible* for birthright citizensh...