The Supreme Court’s generosity toward President Trump’s flagrant violations of constitutional norms has cast a shadow long enough to obscure nearly everything else about the court’s term that ended ...

If the churches are to be faithful to their own values and theology, they will need to lay aside state-endowed privileges and ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the Supreme Court was “stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws” after it ruled 6–3 that states could defund Planned ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim origins and a Spaghetti Western-sounding moniker.

President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship moved closer to law on Friday when the Supreme Court today partially lifted injunctions against it. Here's what the president's ...

Donald Trump’s new mobile phone company is already backing down on some of its biggest promises.

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial has lessons — urgent ones — for today ...

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 of state and local government officials for violating constitutional ...

Sean Combs Acquitted on Top Charges, but Awaits Sentencing for Transporting Prostitutes A judge ordered the hip-hop producer detained until his sentencing, citing his history of domestic violence ...

A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its ...

The soonest a vote could happen is in the fall Congressional session starting in September, with summer recess looming.

President Trump signed the country's first major legislation aimed at regulating cryptocurrency on Friday, hailing "the exciting new frontier" for the technology.