This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

Taney, the former U.S. Supreme Court chief ... the worst decision the high court has ever made: Scott v. Sandford, better known as the Dred Scott decision. This 1857 decision, written for the ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively revoked ... or Republican-leaning states like Kentucky, Kansas, Montana, Missouri, Ohio, Arizona and Nevada. Konfrst said while abortion ...

This amendment was, in part, the culmination of a long-running campaign by Black Americans to guarantee their rights against racist laws and the Supreme Court's infamous decision in the 1857 case Dred ...

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In a few ways, Iowa has been more progressive than the rest of the country when it comes to providing equity to Black ...

DeSantis believes the “executive order will be litigated until the Supreme ... said 1857’s Dred Scott v. Sandford stood out as the most egregious ruling in the history of the High Court.

Dred Scott, (portrait affixed below) an enslaved African American, sought emancipation but was denied by the U.S. Supreme ...

As part of the case, judges will have to decide whether a transgender boy can be considered male under the Missouri Human ...