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As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...
The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an ... But as I said, there was a real damning fiscal analysis that was put out by what’s called the Appropriations Committee out here, where ...
This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery ... The new paper examines these attempted reforms to better understand how the law can drive real improvements. Davidson is also ...
A duplicate of the 13th Amendment on display at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources in Raleigh, N.C. — AP Photo/Gerry Broome Gerry Broome Facebook ...
You see, Dobbs was a 14th Amendment case. But Dobbs did not address the 13th Amendment. The majority opinion did not answer whether a restriction on abortion amounts to "involuntary servitude." ...
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...
That possibility snapped into focus via a federal district judge’s order for briefing on whether a constitutional right to an abortion could yet be found not in the 14th Amendment, but in the 13th.
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...
Lincoln was the only Oscar-winning movie ever to dramatize the passage of a constitutional amendment — the 13th, which ended slavery. Director Steven Spielberg gave all the credit for the ...
JUDGE: RIGHT TO ABORTION MAY STILL EXIST — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., suggested Monday that a constitutional right to abortion may be baked into the 13th Amendment, POLITICO’s Kyle ...