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The Supreme Court said Thursday that it will review President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors, scheduling a ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 on the federal government’s request to be allowed to implement President ...

The long-expected approval of a landmark antitrust case allowing college players to be paid directly by schools is on hold for at least one week. The federal judge presiding over the House v.

The amendment was adopted following the Civil War and had the effect of annulling the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people were excluded ...

Written by a slaveholder and joined by five other slaveholders, Dred Scott v. Sandford's reasoning is continuous ... Maybe you don't agree with any of that. In that case, I'll just summarize ...

While Meacham said there was “not exactly” a historical analogy to the present moment, he referenced the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision and Frederick Douglass’s loyalty to America even ...

After being picked up in Massachusetts, Rumeysa Ozturk was moved to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government wants to argue its case to deport ... an unmarked S.U.V. Footage of ...