Results for 14th Amendment rights

  1. Shocking and Divisive - Massachusetts Puts Muslims First in State Hiring https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/28/shocking-and-divis…ve-massachusetts-puts-muslims-first-in-state-hiring-n2204876
    Massachusetts has always prided itself on being a leader in equality and civil rights, a legacy this bill builds upon," said Democratic … ...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.In our post-14thAmendment world, that would apply to the state of Massachusetts, as well.…
  2. South Carolina State Law Bans Tattoos on Faces, Necks — Cue the 'My Rights!' Crowd https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2026/07/24/south-carolina-s…bans-tattoos-on-faces-necks-cue-the-my-rights-crowd-n2204732
    stuff, I decided to take a short trip off the beaten path and write about an intriguing case involving face tattoos, inalienable rights … Code Ann. § 44-34- 100, as unconstitutional under the First Amendment. … (The litigants include claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the 14th Amendment).…
  3. Three-Judge Panel Upholds Tennessee's Redistricting; Justin Pearson Could Be Hardest Hit https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/23/three-judge-panel…s-redistricting-justin-pearson-could-be-hardest-hit-n2204693
    Callais, which held that maps drawn along racial lines under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act were no longer valid. … maps to eliminate the sole Democratic-leaning seat around Memphis.Opponents of the redraw had argued that the maps violated the 14thAmendment and constituted illegal racial gerrymandering and sought an injunction to block the maps from taking effect.The judges denied…
  4. Clarence Thomas Goes Nuclear on SCOTUS Majority Over Birthright Citizenship Ruling https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/06/30/clarence-thomas-issues-scathing-dissent-on-birthright-citizenship-n2203853
    The ruling invalidates the Executive Order signed by President Trump that used the 14th Amendment to deny automatic citizenship to … Ferguson and Dred Scott – in which, he argued, the 14th Amendment was correctly applied to give citizenship to freed slaves and their … “In doing so, the court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights
  5. Alabama AG Petitions SCOTUS to Use Maps Stripped of Gerrymandered Districts, Justice Thomas Responds https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/05/09/alabama-petitions…its-maps-to-strip-racially-gerrymandered-districts-n2202170
    District Court ruled they were in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.🚨 Alabama asks the Supreme Court to restore its … 2023 congressional map that was struck down under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/FCeaLywjc2 … Callais, a case that clarified the rules for how courts must assess challenges brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to…
  6. Harmeet Dhillon Comes After Colorado: No, You Can't Force AI Companies to Belch Out DEI Drivel https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/04/27/harmeet-dhillon-come…you-cant-force-ai-companies-to-belch-out-dei-drivel-n2201741
    Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. … Amendment to the U.S. … Constitution, Dhillon reminded the wokesters in the Centennial State:This is illegal under the 14th Amendment.…
  7. Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments on Crucial Case Wednesday — and Trump Says He Will Be There https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/03/31/supreme-court-will-h…cial-case-wednesday-and-trump-says-he-will-be-there-n2200842
    Amendment, which codified birthright citizenship, had in mind.' … Birthright citizenship was established by the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship to recently freed … Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon has a message for them: cool your jets.There’s literally a…
  8. To the Surprise of No One, U.S. Catholic Bishops Stake Out a Misguided Position on Birthright Citizenship https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/02/27/to-the-surprise-of-n…out-a-misguided-position-on-birthright-citizenship-n2199638
    This claim is not supported by the debates on the Fourteenth Amendment and is a subject of abuse.BACKGROUND:Stopping Trump's Birthright … At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the 14th Amendment. … They would retain Constitutional rights until deportation, and, contrary to much commentary, they would not be "stateless."…
  9. New: Judicial Panel Upholds California's Prop 50 Redistricting Map, Almost Assuring Trip to SCOTUS https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/01/14/new-judicial-pane…50-redistricting-map-almost-assuring-trip-to-scotus-n2198150
    gerrymandering map:🚨 In a 2-1 vote, a panel of judges has DECLINED to block California's Proposition 50 congressional map under the 14thAmendment and the Voting Rights Act.Judge Lee of the 9th Circuit dissents.…
  10. ACLU Lawyer's Response Shows How Badly the 'Transgender' Lobby Was Spanked During Oral Arguments https://redstate.com/bonchie/2026/01/14/aclu-lawyers-respons…transgender-lobby-was-spanked-during-oral-arguments-n2198120
    What is being challenged is whether Idaho and West Virginia are violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment by drawing … That's an insane deconstruction of the Constitution that would elevate affirmation of mental illness over the basic rights of others…
  11. A Chinese Billionaire Has Over 100 American Citizen Children, How Is This Even Legal? https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/12/15/a-chinese-billionair…00-american-citizen-children-how-is-this-even-legal-n2197137
     A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed … The surrogate mother will not appear on the child's final birth certificate, and as the surrogate mother gives up parental rights basically … Most of the opposition is based on a personal animus toward Trump and a Hollywood version of the 14th Amendment rather than facts;…
  12. Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship? Supreme Court Says It Will Decide https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/12/06/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-n2196876
    The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War in 1868. … Amendment doesn't apply to their children. … More than 22 states and multiple immigrants' rights organizations have sued to permanently block the executive order.…
  13. Could a SCOTUS Decision in 'Louisiana v. Callais' End Democrat Redistricting Scams Once and for All? https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/10/15/could-a-scotus-de…v-callais-end-redistricting-scams-once-and-for-all-n2195109
    Callais, a challenge to the 2024 Louisiana congressional map that brings into conflict the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection … Clause of the 14th Amendment. … These Voting Rights Act challenges against Louisiana and other states follow a model that no longer exists.…
  14. Morning Minute: A Parent's Love https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/10/15/morning-minute-n2195080
    Downplaying Defensive Gun UsesIt's hard to see this undercounting as anything but an intentional effort to undermine the pro-Second Amendment … Absolute Clown Show: Democrats Try to Storm Mike Johnson's Office, Accost Police OfficerTrump Slams Senate Dems on Shutdown, Now in 14th … On three of those denials (involving parental rights, the 7th Amendment, and the death penalty), one or more justices also issued opinions…
  15. Dearborn Mayor to Christians: 'You Are Not Welcome Here' https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/09/26/dearborn-mayor-to-christians-you-are-not-welcome-here-n2194412
    Mayor Hammoud has clearly never heard of the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, or more likely, he just doesn't care. … There are issues of constitutional rights. … The 1st Amendment prohibits discrimination in favor of any religion by Congress, and the 14th Amendment extends the restrictions of…
  16. Former Clinton Apparatchik Robert Reich: Elon Musk Should Be Threatened With Arrest for 'Disinformation' https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/01/former-clinton-app…should-be-threatened-with-arrest-for-disinformation-n2178806
    "Musk’s free-speech rights under the first amendment don’t take precedence over the public interest."Mr. … Elon Musk's First Amendment rights do take precedence over whatever Reich might nebulously define as "public interest." … And even if he were: The First Amendment still applies.…
  17. This Is Why Weaponizing the Government Against Trump Failed https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/11/22/this-is-why-weaponizing-the-government-against-trump-failed-n2182367
    From the moment Democrats began trying to use a provision in the 14th Amendment to disqualify the president-elect from the ballot, … defeat Trump turned off voters is because, at least on some level, most people understand that the law was meant to protect our rights
  18. 'The View' Spew: The Ladies Just Can't Deal With Trump's Blowout Win, Blame 'Uneducated White Women' https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/11/06/the-view-spew-th…th-trumps-blow-out-win-blame-uneducated-white-women-n2181644
    conciliatory, but within minutes, "profoundly disturbed" Sunny Hostin warned of coming "internment camps," and that black women's rights … I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter who now has less rights than I had. … Amendment failed spectacularly.I am profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated…
  19. CO Secretary of State Goes Full Crazy Eyes During Breakdown Over Trump Ballot Decision https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/03/04/colorado-secretary-o…yes-while-gnashing-teeth-over-trump-ballot-decision-n2170904
    decision, the Supreme Court ruled that she did not have the legal authority to arbitrarily decide that Trump had violated the 14thAmendment while denying others the right to vote for him.READ: Supreme C24ourt Hands 9-0 Victory to Trump in Colorado Ballot CaseIn … opponent from the ballot, a tyrannical move usually reserved for third-world countries, is somehow preserving fundamental rights
  20. Putin's War, Week 110. https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/04/07/putins-war-week-110-n2172100
    Just like Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was not "self executing," NATO's Article 5 requires affirmative action by each state before … April 2, 2024Sauce For the Goose is Sauce For the GanderOne of Putin's operating principles is that Russia is the guarantor of rights
  21. Lawsuit Against AL's Gender Surgery Ban for Minors Reveals Rachel Levine Acted to Remove Age Restrictions https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/06/25/hhs-lawsuit-again…an-reveals-biden-lobbied-to-remove-age-restrictions-n2175944
    Marshall, filed against the State of Alabama by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Human … Rights Campaign Foundation, high-powered law firms Lightfoot, Franklin, & White LLC, King & Spalding LLP, and a host of others … Amendment violation has now become more complicated as evidence mounts of the damage being done through minors receiving these medical…
  22. Whoopi Goldberg, 'The View' Co-Hosts Reject 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty' ... for Donald Trump https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/08/whoopi-goldberg-innocent-until-proven-guilty-inapplicable-to-trump-n2173935
    The United Nations 1948 "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" states in Article 11:Everyone charged with a penal offence has the … Rights are not conditional to one's political leanings; even the worst radical commie or the most wild-eyed Islamic fundamentalist … rights as the rest of us.…
  23. Federal Appeals Court: Maryland Parents Can't Opt K-5 Kids Out of LGBTQ Subjects in Schools https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/16/federal-appeals-co…cant-opt-k-5-kids-out-of-lgbtq-subjects-in-schools-n2174276
    not shown how the policy – initiated by the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) board – would violate their children’s First Amendment … s exposure to LGBT-themed books and related discussions violates federal and state law.It's hard to see how this isn't a First Amendment … issue — that amendment and the 14th Amendment's extension of the Bill of Rights to state governments — given that these people's children…
  24. Biden Admin. Now Opposes Minor Gender Surgeries After Being Caught Putting Their Thumb on the Scale https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/06/29/biden-admin-oppos…after-being-caught-putting-their-thumb-on-the-scale-n2176166
    know that any law attempting to restrict minors from receiving these gender-affirming procedures is a violation of constitutional rights … under the 14 Amendment. … guardians from following a medical professional’s advice, as states like Texas and Arkansas have attempted — may infringe on the 14th
  25. Thoughts on the Inauguration: America Is Back, Baby https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/01/20/thoughts-on-the-inauguration-america-is-back-baby-n2184574
    The 14th Amendment states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens … The move will almost certainly face a challenge in court from civil rights groups and immigration activists.I'm not a lawyer, nor do … I play one on television, but I'm pretty familiar with the Constitution, and I'm inclined to agree that the 14th Amendment was misinterpreted…