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Is a new constitutional convention a good idea to tackle questions that have emerged since 1787’s first (and, so far, only) ...

I’m not saying that GOP lawmakers have an elaborate plan to ban abortion in Kansas. But if they did, they’d be doing what ...

Kansas lawmakers have tried to change how Supreme Court justices are picked before. These debates are more than a decade old, ...

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional. In 2011, the U.S. Interior ...

I knew I would run out of room, so I ended with “to be continued.” It is continuing, all right. It’s gotten worse. It seems we now have a monarchy, with King Donald Trump. This has been confirmed by ...

A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective services placements in hotels ...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared stories of triumphs and tribulations in the Black community and the contributions to ...

"Spell Freedom," by Elaine Weiss, is about Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins and others who secretly helped prepare Black Southerners to embrace their civil rights.

There are more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges.

To be the first state to go backwards, I mean, how embarrassing could that possibly be?” said Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, a Democrat.