America started doing so at the end of the civil war. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ...

The fine playwright Heidi Schreck has written an impassioned play about the many undercurrents and issues that percolate throughout the United States Constitution in the stimulating and invigorating ...

Pushback against President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration orders gathered steam Thursday with a court set to hear the first of a set of lawsuits filed by a coalition of at least 22 US states ...

A Seattle judge will hear a request on Thursday by four states to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship in the US. The request - filed on behalf of ...

A federal judge in Seattle is set to hear the first arguments Thursday in a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block President ...