Colorado Democrats are calling out a tone-deaf Republican who joked about lynching and justified thinking of Black people as three-fifths of a person. On Thursday, State Rep. Ron Hank took to the ...

Micah Beckwith, now Indiana's lieutenant governor, speaks to a crowd on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Greenwood. (Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican falsely declared Tuesday that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for “the purpose of ending slavery," ...

DENVER — Colorado State Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Penrose) falsely alleged that the three-fifths compromise was not “impugning anybody’s humanity” while debating a civics education bill on the House floor ...

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty (R), is facing criticism for defending the Three-Fifths Compromise. The agreement was drafted during the nation’s Constitutional Convention in 1787 and classified ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican has falsely declared that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for what he called “the purpose of ending ...

Local religious groups are denouncing recent comments by Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith surrounding his belief ...

Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing staked out the bold position that the Three-fifths Compromise originally written into the Constitution was “one of the better” ideas the Framers had. That compromise ...

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty (R) gave an impassioned speech on the state House floor Tuesday, saying the Three-Fifths Compromise was included in the Constitution "for the purpose of ending ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a claim that has surfaced and been debunked before, but Republican lawmakers in recent days have given it new voice: the notion that the clause in the Constitution counting slaves as ...