While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents ...

Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, known formally as 42 U.S.C. §1983, is a federal law that allows for the suing ...

Decades before Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents sought to opt their children out from textbooks, sex ed programs and health classes ...

The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act. Support ...

A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order ...

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflected on her life and her career Thursday at a luncheon led by the ...

The new rollback of protections is the latest attack on trans people in the U.S. and part of a broader movement across ...

A federal appeals court has upheld its decision against two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting ...

In a unanimous opinion, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that venue shopping, or filing court cases in a ...

In a 4-3 ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority ruled the 1849 law had been "impliedly repealed" by changes ...