Supreme Court decisions affect educators, students and working families every day. Find out how we “graded” key decisions ...

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

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

Even when explicitly segregationist laws were absent, courts often refused to challenge exclusionary practices if they did not violate the letter of equal protection under the 14th Amendment. That ...

Education – in 1982, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote (Plyler v. Doe), decided that children are entitled to attend public ...

Wong Kim Ark was not the only — nor even the first — Chinese American San Franciscan who shaped a fundamental part of the 14th Amendment. The San Francisco cook’s late 19th-century struggle ...

The nation’s highest court has never ruled on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. Continue reading 1 2 3 ...

In its bigotry and deceitfulness, US v. Skrmetti is destined to be seen alongside Plessy, Dobbs, Dred Scott, and all of the court’s other most notorious decisions.

The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's law restricting gender-affirming care for minors, leaving the decision to states. The court ruled that the law doesn't violate the 14th Amendment's equal ...

The Supreme Court ruled against transgender youth on Wednesday by upholding a ban that the Tennessee legislature passed into law. Legal analysts were deeply disturbed by the justification using ...

At the time Congress debated the Fourteenth Amendment, the Senate’s own gallery was racially segregated. The public schools in Washington, D.C., were racially segregated and continued to be.

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the June 26, 2015, ...