So with President Donald Trump disrupting the nation at its core, it’s time to gear up and prepare for what the next four ...

Legal experts are concerned that President Donald Trump is expanding executive powers beyond the law – creating what they ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

It is the Constitution functioning as it should ... We know that it means the children of former slaves are citizens. That was its stated purpose and the plain language of the amendment, which ...

Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudence ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a White man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon ...

Most of the slavery precedents concern how property rights were protected by the U.S. Constitution, which was written by wealthy property owners in an era when much of the young nation’s economy ...

And as executive power continues to expand, we may eventually hit a tipping point that threatens the structure of the government, as laid out in the Constitution ... Court. Slavery in the federal ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.

The belief that the US Constitution inherently protects against despotism has always been an illusion. From slavery and the genocide of Indigenous peoples to Jim Crow, the internment of Japanese ...