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14th Amendment
A high-profile legal victory on transgender rights
The nation’s best-known transgender student, Gavin Grimm, has won his discrimination case against his old high school – for…
Hugo Black, unabashed partisan for the Constitution
On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.
Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy
It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…
Major rulings on gay and transgender rights coming
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to settle the meaning of a 1964 civil rights law that bans discrimination in the workplace…
On This Day: You have a right to an attorney
It was on this day in 1963 that the Supreme Court handed down the Gideon decision, which guaranteed the rights of the accused to…
Supreme Court confirms Excessive Fines Clause applies to states
In a unanimous ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court overturned an Indiana Supreme Court decision that said that part of federal…
Breaking down the birthright citizenship debate
President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants will be getting a good…
Testing who is a “birthright citizen”
President Trump has started a new debate about what the Constitution’s “Citizenship Clause” means, but the final answer no…
Pinky the Dog gets her day at Iowa’s Supreme Court
A dispute about a dog that bit a cat is now at Iowa’s Supreme Court and it addresses an important question about how…
John Bingham: One of America’s forgotten “Second Founders”
Although forgotten by most Americans, John Bingham is one of the most important figures in American constitutional history.…
