Ava DuVernay to produce Netflix’s 14th documentary about birthright citizenship | Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has produced a documentary for Netflix about the 14th Amendment, which gave freedom and rights to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, and has come under legal attack from Donald Trump.

Netflix said on Thursday that it will release the 14th installment later this year. The film will mark a return to nonfiction for DuVernay, the director of Selma and Origin, and a follow-up to DuVernay’s 2016 film 13th, her examination of the legacy of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

The Fourteenth Amendment has been a prominent goal of Trump. On the first day of his second term, he signed an executive order that would severely restrict birthright citizenship as protected by the amendment. In June, the Supreme Court overturned Trump’s order by a vote of 6 to 3.

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868 during Reconstruction, states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The Constitutional Amendment overturned the 1857 Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which ruled that those descended from slaves could not be citizens.

DuVernay said her film will detail how the 14th Amendment became an “enduring argument.” It will include politicians, historians and cultural voices.

“If the 13th asks who will be locked up, the 14th asks who will be counted,” DuVernay said in a statement. “This is not a film about a bygone time of freedom. I’m not interested in asking you to look back. The film wonders what kind of country is being written under our feet now… while we’re busy believing the stories we’ve all been told.”

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

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to rights—to participate freely in our political community,” Roberts wrote. “The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to include ‘every person born free in this land.’ “We have kept that promise today.”

Trump pledged to continue appealing the Supreme Court ruling. After the decision was issued, he wrote on the Truth Social website: “This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they do not change their completely insane decision.”