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News Articles: Fourteenth Amendment

Protestors chant during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's use of El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison for people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally, outside the Embassy of El Salvador in Washington, Monday, April 14, 2025.

The risk Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case poses for citizens, according to legal scholar

NPR's Michel Martin talks with constitutional scholar Kim Wehle about President Trump's refusal to demand the return of a wrongly deported Salvadoran national, despite a Supreme Court order.

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  • Michel Martin and
  • Obed Manuel
In this May 18, 2021, file photo, a teacher, center, and her third grade students wear face masks and are seated at proper social distancing spacing during as she conducts her class in Rye, N.Y.

Groups say they'll sue Georgia over 'divisive concepts' ban

Education and civil rights groups say they will sue to overturn Georgia's law banning the teaching of certain racial concepts. They claimed Friday that the ban on so-called divisive concepts violates First Amendment rights to free expression and 14th Amendment rights to equal protection.

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A sign reading "HELP" is posted in the window of an inmate's cell during a 2019 tour with state officials at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala.

Alabama Vows To 'Fervently Defend' Prison System Against Justice Department Lawsuit

State officials say they were blindsided this week by the legal action alleging brutal and unconstitutional conditions in the state's prisons.

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  • Debbie Elliott