The new documentary will feature various politicians, historians, and cultural commentators discussing how the amendment evolved into an ongoing national debate.
"If 13th asked who gets caged, then 14th asks who gets counted," DuVernay said in a statement. "This is not a film about the past tense of freedom.
I’m not interested in asking you to look back.
The film asks what kind of country is being written beneath our feet now … while we’re busy believing the stories we’ve all been told."
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in the June ruling, upheld the constitutional guarantees that grant citizenship to nearly everyone born on American soil.
"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community.
The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’" wrote Roberts.
"We keep that promise today."
Trump has expressed strong opposition to the judicial outcome, pledging to continue challenging the birthright citizenship rule.
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Following the Supreme Court's decision, Trump posted on Truth Social: "This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision."
