The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute , a case challenging Ohio's voter registration maintenance policy, which permits the government to remove individuals from the voter registration list after...

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana . After a committee recommendation that the lawmakers kill the bill, the House voted against killing the bill. The House then voted 207-139 to...

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, filed two defamation lawsuits on Monday regarding BuzzFeed's publication of the Steele Dossier , a condemning but unsubstantiated report indicating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. The first...

A three-judge panel in the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina struck down North Carolina's 2016 congressional redistricting plan Tuesday. The case was brought by consolidated plaintiffs Common Cause and the League of Women...

Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives undocumented...

Eight states have filed an amicus brief in a case concerning a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant's attempt to obtain an abortion without parental consent while in government custody. Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina...

The US Supreme Court heard two Fourth Amendment cases Tuesday involving the search of motor vehicles. In the first case, Byrd v. United States , the court heard arguments as to whether a driver has...

US authorities are deliberately concealing information about how they obtained evidence in criminal proceedings, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Tuesday. HRW divulged findings from over a year of investigating a police practice known as "parallel construction,"...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday, announced the termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established this designation for over 200,000 Salvadorans after the...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in two original jurisdiction cases concerning state disputes over water rights and allocation. In the first case, the court heard arguments concerning water rights to the Rio Grande River....