Counties want to remake Washington’s approach to public defense, in which they shoulder almost all the costs of representing ...

With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate ...

The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and ...

A federal appeals panel on Thursday appeared skeptical of U.S. President Donald Trump's argument that a 1977 law historically ...

For 60 years, Republicans and Democrats agreed that federal dollars should help close gaps between privilege and poverty in ...

In August 1964, three civil rights activists were found dead in the Deep South. The public's response provided the impetus ...

Senate confirms Judge Jason Reding Quiñones for South Florida U.S. Attorney despite job issues he had in the office he now ...

Spikes in the number and influence of briefs filed by historians have prompted questions about the role scholars should play ...

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning ...

A court fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters places the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself.

Democratic-led states and U.S. businesses challenging tariffs in court argue that IEEPA does not cover tariffs, and that ...

A panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling late Friday, saying the Department of Justice’s arguments to ...