The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...
This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the work of ensuring their enforcement. On July 9, 1868, South Carolina became ...
When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled ...
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...
The 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship, equal legal protection, and due process for formerly enslaved Africans, who had been deprived of those protections. This topic entered the ...
In truth, Callais did something far more extreme: it rewrote the VRA, and in doing so, made vote-dilution claims impossible. Perhaps even more radically, Callais may have turned the Fourteenth ...
A discrimination lawsuit has been filed challenging an Act in Hawaii that sets aside ...
Protesters outside the Essex Police Department in July 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger MONTPELIER — Vermont voters will have the chance to weigh in on another amendment to the state’s ...