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

"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter," says civil rights attorney Damon ...

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 ...

After SCOTUS opened the door to President Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the anniversary of the 14th Amendment ...

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

Trump's executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in ...

The legal fight over President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is advancing on a path toward the Supreme Court ...

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

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 ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.