Commissioner Jennifer Horton, one of Buncombe County’s top elected officials, filed a lawsuit alleging the county violated ...

If the Supreme Court takes up Taylor v. Singleton, it could be the sum of all fears for the most vulnerable Americans.

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

In this season of Black History Month, LaDon Love reflects on the practice of Sankofa and the need to understand our past to ...

Former President Trump reignited the debate over birthright citizenship with a proposal that could challenge the 14th ...

Idaho school reps issued an "unconstitutional" ban on a teacher's "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster, which was labeled ...

The 14th Amendment is often taught as a milestone of post–Civil War Reconstruction — but rarely do we hear about the ...

A civil rights advisory committee released a report this week, finding that Louisiana’s involuntary commitment law appears to violate due process rights under the 14th Amendment.

NA The Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London (2005), held that private "economic development ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “The federal government is attempting to bend the state’s will to its own—and that is ...

A federal judge this week determined that a Texas state law that seeks to prevent state funds from being invested with financial firms that boycott fossil fuel companies is unconstitutional. Texas ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was heard on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. On Monday, that same speech was read by Utahns inside the ...