The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

New residential projects need to set aside a share of the units they plan to build for lower-income renters and homeowners ...

But the power dynamic that defines it is increasingly visible in the new style of American corruption under Trump, too. Trump ...

Texas's redistricting attempts are meant to amend previous racial gerrymandering and ensure fair representation to the ...

A federal judge said Arkansas was part of a "coordinated strategy" by some states to increase Christian influence in public schools.

A federal court has denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from ...

The Trump administration is on a pro-Confederacy roll, with two monuments brought back in 24 hours. U.S. Defense Secretary ...

The law could subject pedestrians to criminal liability if they walk up to an officer to ask for directions, Judge Doris Pryor wrote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

It’s been more than five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but legal disputes from the pandemic continue to ...

The Trump administration has been in a tailspin over the case files since the beginning of July, when the Justice Department ...