Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump ...

The decisions so far show that the conservative court isn’t going to act as a resistance to an increasingly autocratic ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on this day in 1896 upheld the constitutionality of a Louisiana law mandating 'equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races' on railroad trains.

Ferguson, the infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision that legalized the doctrine of “separate but equal” which proved to be the foundation of insidious Jim Crow racism in America for the next 60 ...

Description. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the Court infamously ruled it was within constitutional boundaries for the state of Louisiana to enforce racial segregation in public facilities.

In 1896, the Supreme Court issued one of the most shameful decisions in US history, Plessy vs. Ferguson. The landmark decision upheld ‘separate but equal’ public accommodations, ...

Ferguson, 1896. Few Supreme Court cases are as well-known or as critical to American history as the 1954 decision that ruled racial segregation in schools, and by association all segregation, was ...

A new book explores the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, who, through his writing, made history even though he lost. Harlan was on the court in 1896 when it endorsed racial ...

The retrenchment on transgender rights is fueled by fear: fear of the future, fear of unfamiliar concepts, fear of not ...