A press conference was held, with officials calling on Beckwith to retract his statements and for the Indiana governor to ...

The Indiana Lt. Governor took aim at Democrats over the comparison, saying the Three-Fifths Compromise wasn't a "terrible ...

The comments, made on April 24 on Beckwith's X page, were about a 1787 deal tied to slavery. In that video, he called the Three-Fifths Compromise "a great move." ...

Beckwith's video came in response to a debate at the Statehouse over Senate Bill 289, which has been sent to the governor's ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is facing backlash for sharing a debunked conservative argument that the Three-Fifths Compromise was a step toward ending slavery in response to a discussion ...

Beckwith posted a video on Thursday to X, formerly Twitter, criticizing Senate Democrats for comparing the bill to the Three-Fifths Compromise. During the session, Democrats likened the bill to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise — which he called “a great move” by the ...

His target: the idea that the Three-Fifths Compromise “was some terrible thing in our past.” This compromise — one through which the U.S. Constitution was established in 1787 ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith criticized state Senate Democrats for equating a GOP legislative proposal intended to root out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education ...

Mike Braun to condemn Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith's statement that the Three-Fifths Compromise was "a great move." The 18th century law counted an enslaved person as 60% of a free person. The ...

Indiana’s lieutenant governor is facing backlash from some of the state’s religious and civil rights leaders after he called the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each Black enslaved ...