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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 21h

A critical premise of the work of the 14th Amendment Center is that we are all founders & framers of the future of democracy in this country.

Prof. Kate Andrias channels that spirit in this excellent op-ed.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 23h

At @VisionandJustice NOW, @EJI founder Bryan Stevenson explained how 15 years ago he came to understand that civil rights litigation would not be enough. “We couldn’t win Brown v Board of Education today.” Stevenson created the @legacysites.eji.org in Montgomery, spurred by this realization.

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 1d

Why is “Art & Imagination” one of the 4 Pillars of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy’s work? At the Vision & Justice Now gathering in NY this week I explained what civil rights litigators know about the power of culture in shaping narrative. @howardlawschool.bsky.social @visionandjustive

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 10d

www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/how-...

How birthright citizenship made it back to the Supreme Court

On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of its birthright citizenship order. Although the administration’s decision to do so was not a great surp...

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 10d

LISTEN: So appreciate @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social, & @kateshaw.bsky.social for allowing NYT columnist @jamellebouie.net & I to join them in a deep dive about the ongoing attempt to derail the promise of the 14th Amendment. Begins at min 57:00. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak

Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · 09/29/2025 · 1h 59m

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 15d

Big 14th Amendment news.
Aren’t you glad you joined our webinar?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue before t...

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to all who joined the 14th Amendment Center for our seminars on birthright citizenship last week. Kudos to seminar faculty MarthaJones, @katemasur.bsky.social, Robert Chang at @korematsuctr.bsky.social,Jessica Levin at Seattle Law & Bethany Li @aaldef.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 22d

Our founder @sifill.bsky.social delivered the keynote at @howard.edu’s 158th Convocation & received the Presidential Medal of Achievement. She reminded students: “It’s planting time… we have the duty to remake democracy.” Watch her full remarks www.youtube.com/live/1YedCX5...

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 23d

Yes! All who registered will get a link.

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National Constitution Center @constitutionctr.bsky.social · 23d

#OnThisDay in 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act is signed into law as part of the Compromise of 1850. You can view a printing block that was used to advertise runaway slaves in newspapers in our exhibit #CivilWarAndReconstruction.

Credit: Courtesy of Angelo Scarlato

A running man carrying a bag on his back

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 24d

Last night the 14th Amend Ctr had a terrific opening session on birthright citizenship w/historians Martha Jones & @kate.masur.TONIGHT is Part Two w/a great line-up of scholars & advocates. It’s not too late to register. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 24d

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 25d

Are you ready? Class is about to be in session.
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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Sep 11

Bluesky's chief operating officer, @rose.bsky.team, tells The Times the platform is going strong but engagement is more important than user numbers or monetising

Bluesky chief: Musk and advertising turned social media into slop

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 26d

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 27d

There are a few more showings this month of “Becoming Thurgood.”Check your public television station schedule. Marylanders, MPT is showing it at 7pm tonight.

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Sep 9

TONIGHT on PBS: Becoming Thurgood Marshall: America’s Social Architect premieres at 10ET/9C. The film traces the life + legacy of the nation’s first Black SCOTUS justice, with never-before-heard interviews + insights from civil rights leaders + scholars, including our founder @sifill.bsky.social

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Have you registered for the free webinar on birthright citizenship yet? It’s time to learn what’s at stake. We cannot protect it if we don’t understand it.
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Sep 8

“On September 8, 1910, the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging U.S. senators and congressmen to work toward repealing the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black people born in the U.S.”
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Sep. 8, 1910 | Texas House of Representatives Votes To Support Disenfranchisement of Black Citizens

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Sep 5

We’re proud to launch The Refounding, the 14th Amendment Center’s new newsletter! Stay connected with legal updates, scholarship & events that illuminate the past, present & future of the 14th Amendment. Read the first installment written by our founder @sifill.bsky.social medium.com/@TheRefoundi...

Introducing “The Refounding” from the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy

Far too many Americans still do not know about the promise and potential power of the 14th Amendment, or its role in transforming America

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Aug 15

Keep demanding more and better from our country. Let the promise of the 14th Amendment, and the vision of its framers, guide you.

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Aug 8

Who was Albert Pike?

A General in the Confederate Army.

Later described as “the chief judicial officer of the KKK.”

Declared, “the white race, & that race alone, shall govern this country. It is the only one fit to govern, and it is the only one that shall.”

www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...

Confederate statue toppled during Black Lives Matter protests will be reinstalled

The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and Freemason leader, was vandalized and taken down on Juneteenth in 2020. It is the only statue of a Confederate general in Washington, D.C.

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Aug 8

BREAKING: Finding that “the only way to afford complete relief to the certified class is to enjoin enforcement of the [birthright citizenship EO]” (& w/specific reference to the concerns of Justice Alito), the fed district court in MD granted a nationwide injunction against enforcement of EO 14160.

storage.courtlistener.com

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today SCOTUS ordered the parties in the Louisiana racial redistricting case to submit briefing on the question of whether the creation of majority-Black districts in order to comply w/ Sec. 2 of the Voting Rights Act violates the 14th & 15th Amendments.

www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

www.supremecourt.gov

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Jul 24

Truly fine article refuting fly-by-night restrictive theories of birthright citizenship and false historical narratives. Weaving in the destructive Dunning School of Reconstruction scholars who perpetuated Lost Cause narratives is brilliant & sobering. bsky.app/profile/anth...

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Jul 23

The moment has arrived!

The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website.

Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

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