For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s executive order described both birthright citizenship’s history and its purp ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

Abraham Lincoln had coined the term "legal astonisher" in relation to the Dred Scott case. The term signifies any ludicrous judicial act, observation or decision that is against the fundamentals ...

Boardman's preliminary injunction puts the executive order on hold until the merits of the case are resolved ... in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that ...

The latest proceeding comes just a day after a Maryland federal judge issued a nationwide pause in a separate but similar case involving ... War and the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision ...

Boardman’s preliminary injunction puts the executive order on hold until the merits of the case are resolved ... 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network A breakup? The end of a friendship? The ...

The clause's purpose was to overturn the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and thereby ensure that Blacks were, and would forever be, full-fledged citizens. But Blacks were ...