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The justices have 10 decisions to issue. Among them is a case concerning the Trump administration’s executive order ending ...
This is the first known instance in American history where a state has imposed felony liability on local officials simply for the viewpoint expressed in their votes,” the lawsuit ...
On June 20, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in its own summary, “held that California ...
Most of the lawsuits Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed against the Trump administration have resulted in court ...
The conservative Supreme Court has allowed states to ban transgender care for minors — a blockbuster decision that could have ...
The 14th Amendment had scarcely passed to the states for ratification in June 1866 when Congress realized its insufficiency. After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, ...
The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified three years later, finally granted citizenship to free people of African descent: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...
A Lutheran teacher convicted of teaching reading in German challenged the law, arguing that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Ratified in 1868, the amendment prohibits states from depriving ...
During Wednesday's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing – the first time the merits of Trump’s executive order have come before a federal appeals court – Eric McArthur, deputy assistant attorney ...
Additionally, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment becomes relevant when stop and frisk practices disproportionately affect certain racial or ethnic groups. In Floyd v. City of New ...
By denying him permission to don that garment at the school's event, Bar-Levy alleges that school officials will violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments and that the World Equestrian Center ...