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

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This move was an astonishing corrective to a term drowning in calculated political maneuvering over legitimate judging.

The legal battle over the Constitution’s 14th Amendment may be just beginning, after President Donald Trump decreed in an executive order — and six months later the Supreme Court did ...

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

Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

President Trump’s signature second-term legislative agenda is hitting the courts. His “big, beautiful bill” is a boon for Second Amendment groups, who say it aids their quest to ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

The Virginia chapter of the NAACP’s lawsuit against the Shenandoah County School Board over renaming two schools after Confederate military figures will head to trial in December.

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If there is any public funding involved, a pie-shaped section that includes a few floor-level seats, a few more mezzanine ...