When the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions, you may hear that the nine justices reached a 6-3 or a 5-4 decision. You may ...

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld legal segregation in 1886. Nick Capodice and Julia talk about how the case continues to be relevant today. You can listen to Civics 101 ...

Board of Education, ruled on by the Supreme Court in 1954, did historical justice in wiping away the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, making "separate but equal" rightfully unconstitutional.

In 1896, the Supreme Court issued one of the most shameful decisions in US history, Plessy vs. Ferguson. The landmark decision upheld 'separate but equal' public accommodations, barring recently ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts asserted ... Board of Education overruled [Plessy v. Ferguson] … so the idea that it’s invariably a bad thing to overrule precedent is, I think ...

This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Charles Barzun is a ...

So they worked hard, over months and years, to project a unified front. When the court overruled Plessy in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education, the vote was 9-0. It was an unambiguous ...

From Plessy v. Ferguson to the Uvalde school shooting, this week in history highlights major events including Mount St.

Fox News host Mark Levin erupted at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Sunday night over comments she made during oral arguments last week about birthright citizenship. On Life, Liberty & ...

It’s a legal rationale for overturning past precedent. In other words, while the 1954 Court felt Plessy was egregiously wrong, its egregious wrongess was not in itself enough for the Justices to ...

President Wilson signed the Selective Service Act of 1917 by which the United States raised an army for service in Europe ...