Ava DuVernay to make 14 Netflix documentaries on citizenship | This is DuVernay

This is DuVernay announced Thursday that he has made a documentary Netflix on the 14th amendment, which gives rights and liberties to former slaves after the civil war, and was opposed by Donald Trump.

Netflix said Thursday that it will release 14 later this year. The film will mark a return to non-fiction for DuVernay, creator of Selma and Origin, and a follow-up to DuVernay’s 2016 film 13th, her exploration of the legacy of the 13th amendment, which ended slavery.

The 14th Amendment has been Trump’s main target. On the first day of his second term, he signed into law a bill restricting citizenship rights as protected by the amendment. In June, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s order by a 6-3 vote.

The 14th Amendment, which was approved in 1868 during Reconstruction, stated: “All persons born or born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction of that country, are citizens of the United States and of the country in which they reside.” This constitutional amendment overturned the 1857 Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v Sandford, which ruled that those descended from slaves could not become citizens.

DuVernay said her film will detail how the 14th amendment became “a permanent controversy”. It will feature politicians, historians and cultural figures.

“If the 13th asked who gets locked up, then the 14th asks who gets counted,” DuVernay said in a statement. “This is not a film about the old days of freedom. I don’t want to ask you to look back. The film asks what kind of world is being written under our feet now…

Chief Justice, John Roberts, writing to the court, advocated for the protection of the amendment, which makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, with very few exceptions.

Roberts wrote: “Citizenship was then and still is the right to have the right to participate freely in politics.” The framers of the 14th Amendment extended this promise to ‘everyone born free in this country.’ “We are keeping that promise today.”

Trump has vowed to continue to challenge the Supreme Court decision. After the verdict, he wrote on Social Truth: “This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their insane mindset.”