A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
Supreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure
Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited ...
This Man Won Birthright Citizenship for All
When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...
Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders
President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the ...
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Elegy for Precedent
Is the Supreme Court rushing to overturn old cases? The figures say the opposite.