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Fourteenth Amendment
May 30, 2023
Tori Otten
Trump Vows to End Birthright Citizenship on “Day One” if He Wins
Undoing the Fourteenth Amendment is not a joke.
April 21, 2022
Magazine
Patrick Caldwell
A Forgotten Section of the Constitution Could Help Democrats Save Voting Rights
The 14th Amendment requires Congress to punish states that restrict the right to vote. Will Democrats finally revive it?
September 19, 2020
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Melissa Gira Grant
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the End of the One Great Woman Myth
The meme-ification of the justice was just one part of the brand-driven, girl-bossed, leaned-in conception of women’s freedom in which it incubated.
October 31, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump has a shoddy grasp of the Constitution.
October 31, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump’s Closing Argument to Voters: Fascism
The president insists that he, not the Constitution, determines who is an American.
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