In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Justice Department lawyers will defend President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship in federal court Thursday — the first action in what promises to be a ...

“The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on birthright,” Rosen says. “It is really important that it’s a vision of ...

America started doing so at the end of the civil war. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ...

The president’s executive order would purportedly end a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. But that's not how ...

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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 ...

John Eastman's service to Donald Trump has included a role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, mapping out the theory behind ending ...

Explore the stark contrast between two visions of America, one rooted in division and inequality, and the other in justice ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, overturning the Dred Scott decision that denied Black Americans the rights and protections of U.S. citizenship. In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed in ...

Dred Scott was enslaved trying to fight his way ... stating he was *** citizen because he was born on US soil. This landmark decision helped clearly define the Supreme Court's interpretation ...