T HE SUPREME COURT decided just 55 fully argued or “merits” cases in the term that ended on June 27th—the lowest total since ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a major decision scaling back the power of federal judges to block presidential ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...

We may criticize or appeal court rulings we don't agree with. But we cannot defy the rulings of duly constituted courts and ...

The 14th Amendment, which was ratified after the Civil War, says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from holding future office if they “engaged in ...

Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps “The Constitution will hereafter be read by the light of emancipation” ...

The framers of the 13th Amendment did not intend to establish an empire of prison labor. By Eric Foner Mr. Foner is the author of “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction ...