Source: Washington Monthly
by David H Gans
“In his second term, Donald Trump has launched a full-scale attack on the Fourteenth Amendment. Rightfully, much of the attention has focused on Trump’s executive order purporting to limit the guarantee of birthright citizenship, roll back civil rights gains, and attack racial diversity. One development that has gone largely unnoticed is the administration’s effort to strip marginalized populations of legal protections in defiance of the amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws.” (02/27/25)