On March 26, 1962, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. Carr, establishing its power to intervene in cases about the drawing of…
Note: Landmark Cases, C-SPAN’s new series on historic Supreme Court decisions—produced in cooperation with the National…
Landmark Cases, C-SPAN’s new series on historic Supreme Court decisions—produced in cooperation with the National Constitution…
On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court announced one of its most shocking decisions ever. The Korematsu decision is still…
In one of the most widely condemned decisions in U.S. history, the Supreme Court held that the right to freely contract is a…
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy expert, looks at the debate in two states about the…
A narrow reading of the 14th Amendment's Privilege or Immunities Clause altered the trajectory of constitutional law.
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Terrance Williams, who is at the center of two capital punishment controversies, will have one of his cases argued at the United…
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