In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of ...

DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship ...

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 ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney's unjust majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford shockingly declared Black individuals weren't citizens, solidifying slavery's grip and pushing the nation ...

The Supreme Court decides on and interprets material related to the five core tenets of American political development: identity, ideas, institutions, state capacity and history (Mettler et al, ...

Education and immigration advocates say Trump’s move to deny citizenship to some U.S.-born infants will do lasting harm to ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide whether President Donald Trump can end birthright citizenship via ...

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 ...

Previous Supreme Court decisions, like Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857, had decided that African Americans could never be US citizens. The 14th Amendment overrode that. In 1898, the US Supreme Court ...

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 ...

We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...