14th Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) held that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry.

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution confers citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for children of foreign diplomats and for those born to a foreign occupying force.

For more than 125 years, courts have interpreted the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as conferring U.S. citizenship on people born on U.S. soil, with narrow exceptions for children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was intended to ensure that Black people, including formerly enslaved people, were granted U.S. citizenship.

The U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection under the law.

Allegations that race was intentionally used to draw electoral district lines implicate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment's prohibition on racial discrimination in voting.

The 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and the 15th Amendment are constitutional provisions that are applied in litigation assessing whether race-based redistricting violates constitutional protections against racial discrimination in voting.