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

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

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

← 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges will weigh a request to bring Alabama back under the preclearance requirement of the ...

Shutterstock The Cherokee Trail of Tears In 1838-1839, the U.S. government forced about 16,000 Cherokee people to leave their ...

Paul J. Wiedefeld is stepping down as Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Secretary. Also, Kaplan Kirsch LLP grows ...