In the months leading up to the end of the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass spoke at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual meeting in Boston about what would remain after the rebellion ...

DuVernay's follow-up to the Oscar-nominated '13th' premieres in New York before streaming on Netflix from December ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s ...

Solicitor General John Sauer responded to a question from Chief Justice John Roberts, during oral arguments on Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship on Wednesday, about the scope of the ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th Amendment acted as a correction to questions created by the 1857 Dred Scott ...

The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to biological females. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive fairness and the ...

President Carter referred to one office as being superior to all others in American democracy: the citizen. But powerful forces are seeking to redefine that highest office as part of a larger effort ...

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...