The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

The Dallas Court of Appeals ruled former State Representative Frederick Frazier's defamation suit against his former primary ...

A federal court has denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence ...

The law could subject pedestrians to criminal liability if they walk up to an officer to ask for directions, Judge Doris Pryor wrote.

It’s been more than five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but legal disputes from the pandemic continue to ...

Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

One longtime conservative federal judge is not mincing words about President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, and is arguing that they present a severe threat to both the U.S. Constitution and the rule ...

Texas can require people applying to vote by mail to submit identification numbers that match state records, a federal ...

It is impossible to look away from Donald Trump’s theatrical trade policy. Every day can bring a triumphant trade deal or a new tariff barrage. For markets and the news media, the minor detail of ...

A former interim Hinds County sheriff is appealing his federal bribery conviction in the United States Court of Appeals.