In and out of court, more than half of the amendments in the Bill of Rights are being fought over as a result of Trump’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.

When it comes to the story of women’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment, two competing myths dominate. The first is that when the amendment became law in 1920, all American women won the vote. The ...

Abortion-rights measures passed in seven states on Nov. 5. But in the three states where Catholic groups spent millions of dollars to stop such measures, voters rejected the amendments to provide ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

President Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified and should be considered the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, but the National Archives quickly rejected that notion.

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

An amendment to New York’s constitution that would bar discrimination based on things including “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes" passed a final vote Tuesday amid debate over how much it ...

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The proposed constitutional amendment would spell the end for Missouri's near-total abortion ban, legalizing the practice up to fetal viability — generally considered 24 weeks. It would also be a ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely to ...

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