This Note analyzes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as a federal administrative regime that adjudicated core private rights—liberty and property—outside ...

Lawyers of a certain age, who grew up in the aftermath of FDR’s presidency and the Civil Rights movement, have long assumed, consciously or not, that federal supremacy and executive power are ...

The scenes playing out in Minneapolis in recent weeks offer an object lesson in the dangers of federal overreach. After the killings of two American citizens — to say nothing of the brutal treatment ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how ...

The closing days of June, 150 years ago, also brought an end to conflicting regulations and management of same with respect to the status of slaves, brought about in a manner that clearly indicated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mirrors modern immigration policies, deepening divides and sparking protests in sanctuary cities ...

The Fugitive Slave Act contained a number of extremely harsh provisions, but one section seems to be echoed in the recently passed Florida immigration bill. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a ...

Democratic Oregon Rep. Janelle Bynum compared a Republican-led immigration bill to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Thursday while speaking in opposition to the legislation on the House floor. House ...

A first-of-its-kind criminal case against a New York abortion pill provider is likely to make its way through the legal system to the Supreme Court, presenting a threat to interstate relations akin to ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

The scenes playing out in Minneapolis in recent weeks offer a lesson in the dangers of federal overreach. After the killings of two American citizens — to say nothing of the brutal treatment of ...