This year marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most influential decisions ever handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, in The Slaughter-House Cases. Slaughter-House has shaped federal-state jurisprudence for the last century-and-a-half. Join us for a half-day symposium to examine the influence and legacy of Slaughter-House and to work towards a better understanding of how these cases have swayed the application of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Federalist Society legal scholars say Trump 'engaged in' and gave 'aid and comfort to' insurrection, violating the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause.
On Jan. 1, 1808, a law passed by Congress and eagerly signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 went into effect prohibiting the foreign slave trade.