The 14th Amendment Center
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Located at Howard University School of Law, the 14th Amendment Center on Law and Democracy is a multi-disciplinary institute dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of the 14th Amendment on American democracy. www.14thamendmentctr.org
One-minute lesson narrated by @sifill.bsky.social on the significance of the 14th Amendment in the @250to250.bsky.social series by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Learn more by following The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social at Howard University Law School. youtu.be/l347V4pJF5E?...
Fourteenth Amendment, Narrated by Sherrilyn Ifill
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Attorneys for the former Olympian who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are asking a judge to ensure federal prosecutors don’t have a chance to reopen the case against him.
Reflecting Pool defendant’s lawyers move to head off new charges
Attorneys for David Heard, the former Olympian who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, are asking a judge to ensure federal prosecutors don’t have a chance to resurre...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Wyoming, like other red and rural states, has a problem,” German Lopez writes. “Its suicide rate is about double the national figure.”
Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
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ICYMI: In a win for voters, a federal judge blocked Trump’s recent ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote. The court found the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens. https://demdock.com/4xeEjiG
Jocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Missouri voters on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the Republican-controlled Legislature to make it harder to pass citizen-sponsored amendments to the state’s constitution, preserving a tool that voters across the country have relied on to pass laws their legislatures would not. nyti.ms/3TCTELv
Kansans vote no on electing state Supreme Court justices, a GOP-backed measure that could have shaped rulings on abortion and voting.
Live updates: Primary polls close in Michigan amid key races in 4 other states
Voters in Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Washington state head to the polls in contests that could shape the battle for Congress.
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Former Democratic Rep. Cori Bush will not be returning to Congress after, failing to retake her old seat from Rep. Wesley Bell in the heated primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
Cori Bush's comeback bid falls short in Missouri Democratic primary
The former representative’s primary loss further hurts Black women’s chances for representation in Congress.
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@duvernay.bsky.social is bringing the 14th Amendment to @netflix.com. 14th. a documentary on birthright citizenship and equal protection, arrives this fall and our Director @sifill.bsky.social is featured in the film. Who gets counted in America? We're about to find out deadline.com/2026/07/ava-...
Ava DuVernay & Netflix Reteam For Constitutional Documentary '14th'
A decade after Ava DuVernay's award-winning 13th debuted on Netflix, the filmmaker & streamer have reteamed for Constitutional documentary '14th'.
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This week marked the 158th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment—the constitutional cornerstone of citizenship, equality, due process, and multiracial democracy. @sifill.bsky.social reflects on why its promise is still worth fighting for 14thamendmentctr.org/news/a-messa...
A Message on the 158th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 14th Amendment - The 14th Amendment Center
The 14th Amendment’s promise holds the key to see together the dawn of this country’s Third Founding.
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Breaking News from @theathletic.com: In a stunning serve performance, Naomi Osaka upset and ousted the top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon in straight sets. nyti.ms/4aydEEL
"We . . . think of this country’s identity, even when we’re not doing it in practice, as aspiring to being a country of equality and justice. That comes from the 14th Amendment, not the first Constitution." -- @sifill.bsky.social of @the14thcenter.bsky.social ⬇️ 19thnews.org/2024/07/erri...
The Amendment: Preserving the 14th Amendment with Sherrilyn Ifill
In this episode of the Amendment, Sherrilyn Ifill, former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, discusses launching the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Uplifts the ‘Universalist’ Purpose of the 14th Amendment - The 14th Amendment Center
Her powerful concurrence in Trump v. Barbara is a model for how we should think, write, and talk about the centerpiece of the post-Civil War amendments.
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If you're born on American soil, you're an American citizen. That is not a policy preference or political debate. It's the law of this country defended by generations of Americans who knew what was at stake when a government claimed the power to decide who belongs #TrumpvBarbara tinyurl.com/3h3kmyhw
BREAKING: The SCOTUS today reaffirmed the guarantee of birthright citizenship. In so doing, it affirms the 1898 SCOTUS decision in Won Kim Ark. United States. Students in @howardlawschool.bsky.social’s 14th Amendment seminar filed an amicus brief in the case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
As we await the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v Barbara this week, remember that there are few provisions of the Constitution more clear than the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing birthright citizenship.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social of @the14thcenter.bsky.social tells #BerkeleyLaw graduates that although they are inheriting a democracy that has run out of steam, that they are young and have the perfect remedy: #Impatience. “The new America they create will be better than the one we lost.” …
In my commencement address to the 2026 graduates of UC Berkeley Law School, I lifted up our inspiring law students as the founders of a new American democracy. @berkeleylaw.bsky.social @howardlawschool.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...
NEW: A federal court blocked Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, potentially preventing Republicans from picking up an additional seat.
Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans
The three-judge panel blocked the state from reimplementing its 2023 congressional maps they found as “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
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Listen to David Blight, historian and renowned scholar of the abolitionist and Reconstruction period describe the roots of what we now commemorate as Memorial Day.
The framers of the 14th Amendment understood that democracy could be threatened not only by insurrection itself but by efforts to legitimize or reward it afterward. What does that mean in light of the Trump administration’s Jan 6th compensation fund? 14thamendmentctr.org/news/what-th...
“Maps. Land. Power. It’s All There.” The brilliant vision and artistic majesty of artist Mark Bradford. Wonderful piece about his new monumental work at the soon-to-be-opened Obama Presidential Library. Mark’s vision epitomizes how art plays into our Center’s work. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/a...
For the Obama Center, Mark Bradford Paints a Fierce and Luminous Chicago
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Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm
Here’s Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter today openly calling for the Supreme Court to overturn the 14th Amendment.This is where we are. *The Supreme Court lacks the power to overturn a constitutional amendment.They can,however, render it ineffective w/decisions that drain its power.
