In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion used a noise complaint hypothetical to justify letting Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional citizenship order blare on for everyone except the specific plaintiffs ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...

New state laws requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms are facing legal challenges.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

There were no British soldiers in the American colonies for 130 years. Colonists distrusted soldiers due to stories of brutality against civilians by soldiers under orders of tyrannical kings in ...

President Donald Trump has a solid group of constitutional scholars in his corner ready to back his birthright citizenship ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

CSO Law amendment raises fears of repression The Ministry of Justice has drafted sweeping amendments to Ethiopia’s Civil ...