Not portrayed at all in the movie — or even mentioned — was the man who actually wrote the 13th Amendment: Illinois’s own Senator Lyman Trumbull. Unlike Lincoln, his longtime ally and rival ...

Let’s #EndTheException in the 13th Amendment,” Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) wrote on Twitter on Monday. The Constitution’s 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the United States was ratified ...

The idea that Congress should utilize the 13th Amendment to grant Black Americans the right to an abortion as a "matter of racial equality" is insulting to the core. It's based on a racist premise ...

Wade which first established the federal right to abortion. But Kollar-Kotelly in her order wrote that the 13th Amendment "has received substantial attention among scholars and, briefly ...

In January, Northwestern University law professor Andrew Koppelman wrote an op-ed discussing the 13th Amendment’s implications on abortion, noting those who might disagree often “claim that ...

Noncompete clauses arguably violate the 13 th Amendment to the Constitution because they impose involuntary servitude on low wage workers. The 13th Amendment provides that “neither slavery nor ...

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 ...