In August 2022, Detroit Police Department officers arrested and jailed Daren Fenderson, a 24-year-old Black man, in connection with a fatal shooting. And at the start of the interrogation at police ...

I will say this about Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who died on Saturday at 71: He had Donald Trump clocked right from the jump. During the 2016 presidential primary, Graham, ...

A razor-thin majority of the Supreme Court confirmed today that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says: “All persons” born in the United States and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are ...

For nearly 20 years, Damon Landor adhered to the Nazarite Vow to let his hair “grow long” and let “no razor come upon his head.” And by August 2020, when he began a five-month sentence for drug ...

For the past several weeks, hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a labor and hunger strike. Participants in the strike are ...

On May 21, Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers, who in 1996 was convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of 21-year-old Marcellos Anderson; Anderson’s mother, ...

Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court’s recent party-line decision destroying what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is riddled with half-truths and whole lies. Writing for the six-justice ...

On April 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a pair of cases that will determine whether the Trump administration can remove over 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian beneficiaries of a federal ...

In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the ...

Over the weekend, The New York Times published a flurry of internal Supreme Court memos related to its unsigned, unexplained February 2016 order that blocked the Clean Power Plan, an Environmental ...

With few judicial vacancies to fill, President Donald Trump is using each opportunity to pack the courts with proven loyalists. His recent appellate picks—Benjamin Flowers, Matthew Schwartz, and ...

The First Amendment is a blunt tool. Crafted by the Supreme Court intentionally to overprotect, the law of free speech does so by erring on the side of a sort of formalistic inanity. Federal judges ...