On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

During his final days in office, President Joe Biden has been getting some things checked off his to-do list. This week he has moved to take Cuba off the state ...

The right to a civil jury trial is far more deeply rooted in American history and tradition than is the right to own guns, which the Supreme Court was right to incorporate. This coming Thursday, June ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression educated roughly a dozen students and faculty about their First Amendment rights and civil discourse on college campuses at a Thursday event. FIRE ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Recent convictions of activists on charges involving national security and treason suggest that there is a high risk of discrimination when implementing this law. This statement was originally ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...