The bill's sponsor said the legal protections are needed because cities cannot hire and keep enough police officers.

The final articles of the Constitution, Articles 6 and 7, establish the Supremacy Clause, the oath requirement, the No Religious Test Clause, and the rules for ratifying the Constitution. In Article 6 ...

The ante bellum abolitionist movement ranged from peaceful abolitionist societies in the South to groups in New England ...

Mark Bohnhorst has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent scholarship argues that Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the people’s right to elect presidential electors.

The Supreme Court has once again agreed to hear a case that strikes at the heart of the constitutional separation of powers.

The Supreme Court heard arguments over President Donald Trump’s effort to roll back nationwide injunctions blocking his ...

President Donald Trump made the first official state trip of his second term to the Middle East, where he hoped to announce a ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on an issue that courts have not questioned in more than a century: birthright citizenship. NPR's Ari Shapiro discusses the case with law professor Amanda Frost.

Abortion access will go once again before Missouri voters. This time in the form of House Joint Resolution 73, which passed in the Missouri Senate on Wednesday.

The department oversees 14 prisons, housing about 20,000 inmates, as well as 46 probation and parole offices, supervising roughly 75,000 offenders across the state.

Addressing a jury’s statutory damages award that surpassed the plaintiffs’ actual damages, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ...

For more than a century, courts and the government have interpreted the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause to apply to anyone born in the U.S., regardless of the citizenship status of a child's ...