HumanitiesNDMay 84 minChurch and State: The Court Prohibits Religious Tests for OfficeDelegates to the Constitutional Convention, as part of their commitment to separating church from state, unanimously adopted a clause in...
HumanitiesNDMay 84 minJustice Chase’s Impeachment and Judicial Independence In its first and only impeachment trial of a Supreme Court Justice, the U.S. Senate in 1805 acquitted Samuel Chase of charges against...
HumanitiesNDMay 84 minApplying Impeachment Clause to Supreme Court JusticesNational conversations surrounding the remote possibility of impeaching Justice Clarence Thomas for accepting –and failing to...
HumanitiesNDMay 84 minTrump’s Case: When Novel Theories Become Legal PrinciplesDefendant Donald J. Trump and his supporters have assailed the 34-count felony indictment of the former president brought by the...
HumanitiesNDMar 234 minVulnerable to Indictment, Trump’s Cases Subject to the LawFormer President Donald Trump has said he expects to be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury any day now. Although widely anticipated,...
HumanitiesNDMar 234 minCourt Declares a Right to Contraceptives for Unmarried IndividualsIn 1965, in the landmark case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court, for the first time in our nation’s history, invoked the...
HumanitiesNDMar 164 minCourt Finally Ends Race Discrimination in Public AccommodationsRacial discrimination in southern hotels and restaurants throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Congress determined in 1964 through...