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Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In all, the amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in legislative process and were later amalgamated, along with a fifth enforcement section, into a single amendment. This so-called Reconstruction Amendment prohibi...

The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy, and is now one of the chief architects of America’s democratic decline.

You've given this one enough. harry reid, i would assume, would probably be behind something along these lines. >> well, i'm right now, into the praying game. i just pray they'll do something. if it's another assault just like what happened in the capitol on january 6th was an assault on democracy, these are assault on democracy. we started out with only white property owning males could vote. then the reconstruction amendment. the 19th amendment. now it's all about contracting the franchise. and this legislation at least in terms of federal elections stops this democratic erosion that we're s...

Travis Crum (Washington University in St. Louis--School of Law) has posted The Lawfulness of the Fifteenth Amendment (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 97, 2022) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: One of the most provocative debates in constitutional theory concerns...