The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case about the Republican Party’s ...

In August 1991, Charles “Sonny” Burton was one of six men involved in the deadly robbery of an AutoZone in Talladega, Alabama. But he did not kill, encourage the killing, or even witness the killing ...

Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted a sweeping law that threatens transgender people in the state with an array of legal punishments for participating in public life while trans. House ...

Lebene Konan, a realtor and landlord in Euless, Texas, alleges that United States Postal Service employees have subjected her to a yearslong campaign of racial harassment. In a federal lawsuit she ...

Last year, the Trump administration sent over 100 Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison labor camp in El Salvador without giving them any opportunity to challenge the legal basis of their removal, ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in Trump v. Cook, a case about President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Dr. Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The Federal ...

When President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4 percent overall, and at 5.3 percent for Black workers. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Two weeks ago, a federal district court declared Texas Republicans’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and blocked it from taking ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in a blockbuster pair of cases challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs on the $4 trillion in goods and services imported to the ...

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...

On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...