SCOTUS has long supported the 14th Amendment The most sweeping of the Reconstruction Amendments, the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision, which held that Black Americans weren’t ...

It was codified with the 14th Amendment in the wake of the Civil War in a slew of Reconstruction amendments to ensure that former slaves, who were not considered citizens in some Southern states ...

It was originally framed as an attack on illegal immigration, but debates about the 14th Amendment go back to slavery. After the end of the Civil War war, three “Reconstruction Amendments ...

Shreveport City Council approved funding for the reconstruction of Fire Station No. 20 during this week's city council ...

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Alabama’s anti-panhandling laws are unconstitutional and begging is protected speech under the First Amendment.

Her 90-page article consists of five parts that trace the evolution of Fourth Amendment privacy from weak pre-Reconstruction protections through its development over the years, culminating in Boyd v.

The Colorado state budget is moving closer to finalization, but lawmakers have continued grappling over $1.2 billion in ...

The 13th Amendment prohibited slavery and peonage.

The panel decision had unabashedly ruled that "Historical sources from the Reconstruction Era are more probative of the Second Amendment's scope than those from the Founding Era." Everytown Law ...