All would benefit by the Supreme Court revisiting a key provision in the 14th Amendment.

Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

Appointed by Bill Clinton, the retired justice advocates for temperance and common sense in polarizing times ...

We never needed to develop new principles; we just needed to live up to our original ones, the moral bedrock on which this nation was founded.

Justice Clarence Thomas defended the Supreme Court's recent landmark rulings that have overruled some key precedents.

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

On Sept. 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 split, lifted a lower court’s restraining order that had prohibited immigration authorities in Los Angeles from stopping or detaining people based ...

Democracy doesn’t fall overnight — it’s chipped away, decision by decision. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Sept. 8 in Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem is one of those decisions that left a piece of our ...

I’m calling time of death on colorblindness. The concept was in style for a minute after the U.S. Supreme Court, in 2023, struck down affirmative action in college admissions and said all applicants ...

In Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) the Supreme Court ruled that Africans enslaved by U.S. citizens were property and could not be citizens of the United States. The Supreme Court defended the white ...

The very words evoke feelings of disgust and repugnance in Americans who are historically literate and possess a functioning conscience. Advertisement Article continues below this ad In this 1896 ...

Health inequities began in a dark place. A history of slavery, poverty, and bias, federal mandates of separate but equal (Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896), and hospital practices cross the historically ...