The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have ...
Sherrilyn Ifill delivered a lecture on reimagining American democracy, the role of the 14th Amendment of the U.S.
Supreme Court decided not to take on a request to overturn same-sex married couples' rights, but pushback to expanded civil rights has a long tradition in the United States.
By Ross Hetrick December 4, 1865 was a pivotal day in American history when Thaddeus Stevens, with the help of Edward ...
Supporters need to follow Frederick Douglass' example — and make a case for conceiving of citizenship more broadly.
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SCOTUStoday for Friday, November 14

On this day in 1878, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Reynolds v. United States, on whether a federal law banning bigamy violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. […] The post ...