UVA legal expert Amanda Frost explains the president’s executive order, the constitutional amendment he seeks to overturn and how it could play out in the courts.

It’s a cruel policy because if it were adopted, it would impact children mostly. It would impact future generations, and, as is consistent with his theme, it divides people. It would divide our ...

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil.

In his second term, could Trump have the same lasting impact on the federal judiciary ... compared Roe to the Supreme Court’s pro-slavery Dred Scott decision — wrote majority opinions in ...

Will Trump attempt to mobilize the Connecticut National Guard for a promised roundup of immigrants who lack legal status?

Tong and his staff will be looking for executive orders that conflict with CT laws or violate the Constitution.

The New York attorney general this week joined a coalition of nearly 20 states and the city of San Francisco in filing a ...

Trump says he will end it by executive order in multiple media interviews, and it was mentioned in a briefing call by incoming White House administration officials on Monday.

John McLean was the first Ohioan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and he’s been called a complex justice. He was the only committed opponent to slavery on the court before the Civil War. Yet he ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...