Today marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort to end segregation on a fast track.

More than 130 friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed by anti-abortion and abortion rights groups in the Mississippi abortion case being argued in the Supreme Court on December 1. But only one could have been written by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

On November 3, 1884, the United States Supreme Court issued one of its most controversial decisions, stating that American Indians who paid taxes didn’t have the right to vote in elections.

The United States government is a powerful party when it goes into federal court. Just how powerful will be tested when the Supreme Court hears arguments in the shadow of one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country.

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

On September 12, 1958, a unanimous Supreme Court declined a Little Rock School District request to delay desegregation mandated by the Court’s Brown v. Board ruling by more than two years.

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The U.S. Supreme Court in the last few terms has been carving a legacy of religion-favored rulings in such areas as employment, school funding, health care, and more. It’s apparently not done yet.

It was on this day in 1963 that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech as part of the March on Washington. So how much do you know about the speech and the events that led up to it?