AT PENPOINTSomeone, somewhere, must miss the good old Act of Attainder, in which the House of Commons passed a bill saying that so-and-so was a dastard and a traitor, and was to be executed, and t ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

“We’ve held the line against Trump before and we will do it again,” is the refrain from environmental activists, holding back the existential horror of an unhinged, unleashed Trump/MAGA triumverate.

While President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers have offered some outlines, questions remain about how they will deport ...

Abortion rights advocates prevailed on seven ballot measures across the U.S. in Tuesday’s election and lost on three. The losses are the first on statewide reproductive ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, may extend conservative control of the Supreme Court for another two decades. For ...

There's no indication of an impending court vacancy. But with Trump's win, Republicans will be in the driver's seat in making ...

Voters in seven states moved to protect abortion access through ballot initiatives, while similar measures in three other ...

Trump may be able to replace one or two justices, and is expected to name people who are even more conservative than his ...

"We got immunity at the Supreme Court," Trump told Hugh ... Attorney General Garland and all the state prosecutors should do ...

The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and ...

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...