Does Donald Trump have the power to suspend a foundational legal right to challenge a person’s arrest and detention?

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

"Ironically, as the House case chugged slowly toward settlement, it unleashed a new series of challenges to the ongoing model ...

The study of American History is often neatly divided between the period of the Civil War and before and the period after the ...

The item veto was lifted in 1902 from the Confederate constitution. It was folded into a state constitution best known for imposing a poll tax and literacy test designed to deny the vote to Blacks ...

On Feb. 12th, 1999 Clinton was acquitted of lying under oath and obstruction of justice, as less than two-thirds of US senators voted to convict. The Philippines similarly requires two-thirds, or 16 ...

A former attorney hopes to resurrect his 2021 lawsuit meant to bar the city and state from spending funds to preserve public ...

Lincoln's central diplomatic problem was to fend off British and French intervention on behalf of the Confederacy ... A resolution of Congress early in 1861 stated that the North's aim was ...

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ...

Among other things, “1861” portrays the waiting game that Maj. Robert Anderson faced as he commanded Fort Sumter and faced ...

From late May until the last days of a hot summer in Philadelphia, it took the founding fathers 16½ weeks to cobble together ...