A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's ...

If Presidents Day gives you the sudden urge to walk up and down streets named for the nation’s chief executive, you’re in luck. Minneapolis abounds with venues for strolling and contemplating the ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship for certain ...

President Donald Trump has claimed virtually unfettered power over the executive branch in the early days of his second term, setting off a firestorm of litigation likely to reach the U.S. Supreme ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

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

He is going to lose that case, and he will lose it badly ... of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Dred Scott temporarily changed the common law consensus, holding that ...

What about the “Dred Scott v. Sandford” Supreme Court decision in 1857 that stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court?

The clause's purpose was to overturn the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and thereby ensure that ...

The singer-songwriter Neko Case’s new memoir is a superhero origin story. But here, instead of an anonymous mugger gunning down the parents, sending pearls scattering over the pavement ...

The Supreme Court has rejected them all. For example, in the 1898 case Wong Kim Ark v. United States, a young Californian named Wong Kim Ark visited family in China, then tried to return to the ...