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 ...

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

“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 ...

WASHINGTON — A presidential campaign marked by upheaval and rancor approached its finale on Election Day as Americans decided ...

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 ...

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

A justice who wrote a blistering dissent when the Arkansas Supreme Court blocked an abortion-rights measure from the ballot ...

Voters in seven states enshrined abortion rights into their state constitutions, while measures in Florida and South Dakota ...

"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 ...