Civil rights leaders say Trump, a longtime antagonist, is overreaching by taking over policing in the nation's capital.

Washington, D.C., the heart of American democracy, is once again at the center of a heated battle over who gets to call ...

As the old saying goes, “all roads lead to Rome.” In America today, with its rapidly collapsing democracy, all roads lead to ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History are holders of some ...

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...

The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were ...

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 ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers remain outside of the state in an attempt to deny their GOP colleagues the quorum to vote on an ...

The National Archives released over 240,000 pages of records in accordance with an executive order from January.

Just days after a federal appeals court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to yank dozens of agencies and government ...

Hundreds of Bay Area residents gathered at Lake Merritt Amphitheater to denounce President Trump's attempt to gerrymander ...

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and ...