The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

The Trump administration is considering plans to create a squad of 600 National Guard soldiers who would be ready to deploy into U.S. cities to tackle civil unrest, according to a report. At such a ...

That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...

Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed into law. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Justices fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters place the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself.

For now, the Voting Rights Act imposes some restraints on how congressional districts can be drawn. But the Supreme Court has ...

The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic ...

Lewis was a civil rights activist and served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Georgia's fifth congressional district from 1987 until his death at 80 years old July 17, 2020.

A crop of grass-roots immigrant rights networks like Mr. Timpona’s has been rising across the country to try to halt President Trump’s agenda of mass deportation.