The First Amendment is only 45 words long, yet 235 years of court battles have left Americans fiercely devoted to an idea ...

For decades, a growing narrative in American politics has insisted that the United States is fundamentally a secular ...

A federal judge in San Jose could hear final arguments as soon as May 6 in a major First Amendment lawsuit pitting the Stanford Daily student newspaper against the Trump administration over visa ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...

The federal government began grappling with the treatment of illegal aliens in the census in the late twentieth century. In ...

The US Supreme Court is deciding a series of important cases during its current term involving issues such as presidential ...

The proposals in the Arizona Legislature have generated alarm among civil liberty groups and activists who see First Amendment rights in jeopardy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama and 19 other Republican-led states are asking the Supreme Court to blow up more than a century of First Amendment ...

In and out of court, more than half of the amendments in the Bill of Rights are being fought over as a result of Trump’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Bonta, with all six of the Court’s Republicans in the majority, and all three Democrats in dissent (Republican Justices ...

The Supreme Court term that began in October was once again dominated by President Trump’s boundary-pushing policies. The justices are deciding major tests of presidential power in four cases ...