During the first case to be heard in the back-to-back session, Little v. Hecox, both conservative and liberal justices raised ...
The issue is whether those bans are permissible under the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment or Title Nine.
On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...
Oral arguments have concluded in the Supreme Court for Little v. Hocox. The case centers around whether laws that limit ...
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...
When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled ...
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Tennessee law banning specific transgender medical treatments for adolescents in the state is not discriminatory, ruling 6-3 to uphold the law. At issue in the ...
Being a minority in Los Angeles once felt normal. It felt like everyone belonged, no matter the color of their skin, where they worked or what language they spoke. We were equally protected and free — ...