An online resource offers itineraries for visiting Missouri historic sites tied to Scott Joplin, Dred Scott, jazz history, ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

As courts issue orders that pause or restrict a number of Trump actions, a more seismic conflict potentially lies ahead. On ...

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the ...

Could it be that we’ve crossed a Rubicon to a constitutional crisis?

Both at the ACLU of New Hampshire, Devon Chaffee is the executive director and SangYeob Kim is senior staff attorney. On ...

There are rumblings that President Trump is considering disobeying various of the court orders that have been issued against his administration. Perhaps these rumblings are distorted or ...

At the heart of the lawsuits in the three cases is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil ...

That sentence overturned Dred Scott, the 1857 Supreme Court decision that affirmed slavery and helped prompt the Civil War. That history has heft, said Mr. Dellinger, who died in 2022 after a long ...

President Donald Trump's administration says it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that blocks the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for people whose parents ...

The saga begins before the Civil War with the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857, which denied citizenship to people of African descent even if they were not enslaved.