President Donald Trump should follow Abraham Lincoln in responding to judicial overreach, former appeals court clerk Josh ...

The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

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

Donald Trump ’s administration is taking the legal fight over birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court with a demand that ...

The historian Samuel Eliot Morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case involving slavery before being eclipsed by that of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. You may use this ...

Democrats have long said President Donald Trump's picks for key Justice Department positions represent an effort to fill the ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has asked the justices to largely reinstate his executive order ending birthright ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive ...

the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories in the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. But opposition to the expansion of slavery ...

The citizenship clause reversed the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which had denied citizenship to Black Americans. Trump and his allies say they have the authority to ban ...