Fighting words are not protected speech. The test for whether hate speech is protected or not comes from a 1969 court case, Brandenburg v. Ohio, which stemmed from a Ku Klux Klan rally in Cincinnati.

As soon as the report was tabled in Rajya Sabha, opposition MPs expressed their objection and asserted that their dissent ...

Rajan Philips Political Coming of Age Both the observance of Independence Day and its erstwhile detractors would seem to have come of age at last, after 77 years. Tongue in cheek commentators have ...

The Supreme Court has relisted two Second Amendment cases for its conference on Friday January 17. They include Snope v. Brown, which concerns whether Maryland may ban semiautomatic rifles that ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled a nationwide ban on handgun sales to young adults is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found a ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

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Birthright citizenship was first established in 1868 by the 14th Amendment of the United States ... and part of a trio of amendments — the 13th, 14th and 15th — that ended U.S. slavery and ...

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“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: However, as so often is the case, this reaffirmed ...