An abortion-support text line is challenging two Missouri laws that limit young people’s access to abortion. Why have other ...

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has bolstered religious rights and now could change America's public schools.

The "back the blue" bill would rewrite Alabama's law on civil and criminal immunity for police for actions on the job.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees due process to everyone within its borders — regardless of immigration status — under the 5th and 14th Amendments. Declaring someone ‘illegal’ without due process ...

A judge has ruled that the state of New Mexico must commission a remedial plan for K-12 education because the system hasn't adequately helped Native American students and others from low-income ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) says he would talk to President Trump before making any legislative move to claw back power if ...

Just 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term, some wonder if the US faces a constitutional crisis. Yale law professor Samuel ...

The president owes his freedom to due process. Now, he’s shredding this foundational American right for the rest of us ...

Now Donald Trump has issued an executive order that will make it even harder to hold cops accountable—and flirts blatantly ...

Trump's deluge of executive orders means California, usually the state suing to advance a progressive agenda, now finds itself fighting in court to preserve the status quo – playing defense, not ...

This commentary is by Mary Dingee Fillmore of Burlington. She is author of the award-winning “An Address in Amsterdam,” an historical novel about a young Jewish woman who joins the anti-Nazi ...

Media rights activist Baris Altintas tells BIRN that Joakim Medin’s arrest on charges of terrorism and insulting the ...