Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

Tuju's letter also touches on broader concerns about the state of Kenya's judiciary and the potential for the country to ...

Former Cabinet Minister Raphael Tuju has sparked a fresh debate over the integrity of the Supreme Court of Kenya (SCoK) ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford ...

The court has, for years now, deliberately avoided announcing hard-and-fast rules about the scope of injunctions that federal ...

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect ...

“Common law doctrine [of citizenship by birth] was the law of the land until it was erroneously rejected by the Supreme Court in its 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that ...

Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive ...

In 1846, Dred and Harriet Scott filed freedom suits in the Old St. Louis Courthouse, fighting to break the chains of slavery. But after an 11-year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ...