New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday that grants 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote. The governor issued the order by invoking Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the...

A federal judge on Wednesday found Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court for violating a preliminary injunction regarding registering voters in his state. Chief Judge Julie A. Robinson of the US District...

The US Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution expressing disapproval for a rule intended to prevent racial discrimination in auto loans. The original rule was issued in 2013 by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and...

The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled on Wednesday that the state's death penalty statute does not violate the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of "the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury" Maurice Mason, a...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in two cases: the first concerns tribal fishing rights, and the second asks whether certain costs are compensable losses under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act. The first case, Washington v. US...

Another federal lawsuit has been filed against the US Census Bureau regarding a controversial citizenship question added to the 2020 Census. The City of San Jose and Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a California non-profit corporation,...

A class action lawsuit filed in a Georgia federal district court on Tuesday accuses CoreCivil , one of the country's largest private prison contractors, of "maintain a deprivation scheme intended to force detained immigrants to work for...

US Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) proposed a new bill Monday that would replace the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force (AUMF). The proposed legislation includes several new provisions including: the use...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided Tuesday that because the Justice Department will not defend former Maricopa County Sheriff's criminal contempt conviction, it would appoint a special prosecutor to defend the question....

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Monday voted 139-56 to approve HB 2050 , which prohibits abortions if the fetus is diagnosed with or believed to have Down syndrome. In April the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania...