Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered this opportunity for Solicitor General John Sauer to explain how the 14th Amendment acted as a correction to questions created by the 1857 Dred Scott ...

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This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

Executive Order 14160 purported to end birthright citizenship for—and strip American citizenship from—children of unauthorized immigrants and immigrants legally but temporarily present in the U.S., ...

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Scholars have engaged in a sharp argument over whether the judiciary should follow the original understanding in interpreting the Constitution. Recent criticism has argued that originalism fails ...

Barbara Thomas’s “Broken Is Mended” panel, which was installed at Yale's Grace Hopper College -- formerly Calhoun College -- in 2022. If anyone has a lingering doubt about the rightness of Yale’s ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted a black woman as a ...