The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

President Trump claimed to end birthright citizenship on the first day of his second term. Trump’s executive order is ...

Each era brings new challenges and interpretations that shape the foundation of law and justice in the United States.

President Donald Trump's executive order seeks to end birthright citizenship for some children born to immigrants.

Harlan served on the Supreme Court from 1877 until his death in 1911, and he stood alone in opposing the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision that ... to the Constitution. The 13th Amendment banned ...

A politically powerful opponent of birthright citizenship railed that the United States cannot “give up the right” to “expel” ...

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

This is seen in the reaction, at the state level, to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to ... ruling in the landmark 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, which legalised racial segregation in the ...

The case revolves around one white man's claim that he was discriminated against in favor of blacks, but far more is at stake in the deliberations now getting under way before the Supreme Court of the ...

In 1868, the nation ratified the Fourteenth Amendment ... protection clause to permit “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson, ushering in the Jim Crow era. But when the U.S. government ...