Few presidential powers are as consequential and enduring as the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the United ...

Trump met again with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House to discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts.

Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what ...

← Return to all search results for "Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896.“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. It was a case that sent one justice into a mental […] ...

The Supreme Court’s pattern of deference to the executive has rocked our constitutional foundations and invited presidential ...

Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...

President Trump is abusing his clemency power, but most American governors are underutilizing their powers of commutation and ...

By Tahna Weston [email protected] Having spent just over five years of his 40-year prison sentence, Dorian ...

Trump’s 2021 executive order named 244 people to include in a garden of American heroes, and $40 million was allotted this ...

Black male enrollment at HBCUs is at a 50-year low. This essay explores how the loss of Black teachers after Brown v. Board ...

One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The law books record it as ...