14th amendment
Posted Apr 26, 2022, 12:19 pm
Camila Pedrosa
/Cronkite News
A voters’ advocacy group said it will appeal a Maricopa County judge’s decision to dismiss its lawsuit that sought to ban three GOP lawmakers from the ballot for their support of the Jan. 6 insurrection.... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2022, 1:06 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A trio of lawsuits that sought to disqualify Republican Congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and state Rep. Mark Finchem from the ballot for their alleged roles in the January 6 attack on the Capitol was dismissed Friday. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 21, 2022, 6:22 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
Attorneys for three Arizona lawmakers tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol told a Maricopa County judge Wednesday that voter-initiated complaints seeking to disqualify the candidates should be thrown out. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2022, 4:57 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A trio of lawsuits seek to disqualify Republican Congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and state Rep. Mark Finchem from the ballot for their alleged roles in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2021, 7:03 am
Nancy Marie Spears
/Gaylord News
A Texas challenge to the federal Indian Child Welfare Act at the Supreme Court might not be entirely successful in at least nine states where state laws impose similar restrictions on the adoption of Indigenous children by non-Native parents. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 2, 2021, 7:48 am
Emma Ascott
/Cronkite News
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, 11 other Republican governors and more than 200 GOP lawmakers on Thursday filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. ... Read more»
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Posted Jan 13, 2021, 4:41 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Legislative Democrats are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate four Arizona Republican officeholders for their possible involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.... Read more»
Posted Nov 1, 2018, 11:35 am
Hannah Wiley
/Texas Tribune
While President Trump vows to end citizenship rights for children born to non-U.S. citizens through an executive order, political analysts and immigrants themselves say that wouldn't deter illegal immigration.... Read more»
Posted Oct 31, 2018, 1:35 pm
Hana DeMent & Ali Phillips/Cronkite News
Can a president change the Constitution by way of executive order? President Donald Trump thinks he can, saying in an interview this week that he plans to revoke the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.... Read more»
Posted Oct 31, 2018, 12:51 pm
Vandana Ravikumar
/Cronkite News
Arizona native Francisco Fernandez holds a college degree and a job with a nonprofit in the nation’s capital – none of which, he said, would have been possible without the citizenship status conferred on him at birth.... Read more»
Posted Nov 19, 2011, 11:08 am
Max Levy
/Cronkite News Service
A federal appeals court said Friday that a man who wrongly spent three years in an Arizona prison cannot recover damages from the state.... Read more»
Posted Aug 23, 2010, 6:52 am
Morgan Smith
/Texas Tribune
Alberto Gonzales isn't joining his Republican colleagues in calling for a review of the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision.... Read more»
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Posted Aug 12, 2010, 3:31 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
About 1 in 15 children in the U.S. - 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in 2008 - has a parent who is an illegal immigrant, a new report says. But most of those babies were born to mothers living in the U.S. for more than one year.... Read more»