Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

With Kamala Harris’s concession, America stands at a crossroads, deciding whether to return to the foundations of White ...

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The term “Reconstruction Amendments” refers to those amendments ratified shortly after the Civil War in order to reimagine and redefine citizenship and civil rights for Black Americans.

"Reminder: Donald Trump is still possibly barred from being sworn in as President for inciting an insurrection in violation of Sect 3 of the 14th Amendment," one Threads post said.

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th ...

Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

So the second Trump term will be the last. That may not be much comfort for progressives, but there is one important point to ...

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...

The Second Amendment, the majority concluded ... For an example of this, one needs only look at the Reconstruction-era South, in which whites were helped along in their domination of freed ...

The half-penny sales tax to support public schools and Affordable Housing Trust stick around, plus more protection for ...