A lawyer for a teenager said he overheard racist comments directed at his client during a hearing in New York Family Court. The incident came months after a judge warned about racism in the courts.
President Biden’s new panel, which is set to meet on Friday, has ambitions to tackle many other proposals to overhaul the court.
For the first time since the Supreme Court allowed unlimited spending in elections, candidate super PACs are flooding money into a New York mayoral election.
The justices are defying their procedural rules to rewrite the Constitution.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the killing of George Floyd, invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify in his own defense on Thursday.
Arizona follows a model that lets the government ignore questions of cruelty.
Morries Lester Hall, who was in a car with George Floyd before his arrest, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when he was called to testify on Wednesday in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial.
A series of victories in the Supreme Court has fueled claims that the justices are giving preference to faith groups.
She’s a fighter for civil rights. Of course Fox News is trying to smear her.
Historians hoping to preserve the ancient Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, as a UNESCO World Heritage site faces a problem: the golf club that leases the property.
A master practitioner of the courthouse-steps news conference, he often made his case in the court of public opinion. He also made lawsuits disappear.
Readers discuss a threat to women’s rights and a novel interpretation of the 14th Amendment by the religious right.
Mr. Clark oversaw the drafting of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 and went on to defend both the disadvantaged and the unpopular.
The court shifted direction in cases on Covid-related limits on religious services after Justice Amy Coney Barrett replaced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In a dissent, two conservative justices invite a case to overturn a precedent on religion in the workplace that they dislike.
By using microphones and headsets, and by playing white noise to the jurors, the sidebar can happen with the participants at a safe distance.
The Library of Congress recently added more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trial to its collection. “We are drawing history in the making,” one sketch artist said.
Courts are barring public officials from blocking critics from their social media accounts.
Senator Mitch McConnell has lashed out at executives with Major League Baseball, Delta and other corporations for criticizing Republican-led efforts in some states to impose restrictions on voting access.
Senator Mitch McConnell has lashed out at executives with Major League Baseball, Delta and other corporations for criticizing Republican-led efforts in some states to impose restrictions on voting access.
The plaintiff, a Lebanese-American, says he was barred from flying after refusing to become an F.B.I. informant.
Some on the right want the Supreme Court to go beyond ending Roe.
The Supreme Court’s move was expected, as Mr. Trump is no longer president and Twitter has permanently suspended his account.
More broadly, one new study found, “the politicization of religious freedom has infiltrated every level of the federal judiciary.”
Even before the company’s C.E.O., Lachlan Murdoch, moved to Australia, Viet Dinh was seen as Fox’s power center.
Donald Trump gave us a Supreme Court that could overturn Roe v. Wade. But the fight against abortion may leave the current G.O.P. behind.
Monuments to the Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are not protected by state law and can come down, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The I.R.S. believes the American drugmaker used an abusive offshore scheme to avoid federal taxes.
The decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court has fueled calls for changes to the state’s sexual assault law. Women’s rights groups say such measures are applied similarly across the U.S.
But the justices voiced concern that challenges to N.C.A.A. limits on pay beyond the modest education-related sums at issue in the case could threaten the distinction between amateur and pro sports.
With a diverse initial slate of nominees, the president is starting to try to neutralize his predecessor’s profound influence on the courts.
The expansive measure would set a nationwide floor on ballot access, nullify many voting restrictions, change the way political districts are drawn and rein in campaign donations.
The president’s first choices for district and appeals court openings reflected his campaign promise to choose judges who don’t have traditional backgrounds.
The president’s first choices for district and appeals court openings reflected his campaign promise to choose judges from outside of traditional backgrounds.
Linda Colley’s “The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen” examines how constitutions came to be written — and why they sometimes fail.
Mr. Blackwell has represented a series of large companies and joined the attorney general’s office just for this case on a pro bono basis.
El país se enfrenta a una crisis prolongada y se prepara para la mayor reorganización del gobierno que se haya visto en décadas con un referéndum constitucional y elecciones nacionales previstas para este año.
In a sharp exchange, dissenting conservatives suggested that Chief Justice Roberts warped the law in response to public sentiment.
Haiti, facing a prolonged crisis, is preparing for the biggest shake-up of government seen in decades with a constitutional referendum and national elections slated for this year.
The harrowing injustice I suffered as a boy should never happen to another child in this country.
The outcome of a property rights case could foretell how much conservatives can expect from the justices.
Our gun-loving culture is killing us.
The justices will review a decision from a federal appeals court that overturned the death sentence imposed on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the perpetrators of the attack.
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
A detailed look at each stage of the impeachment process of former President Trump.
The Georgia pastor will be just the 11th Black U.S. senator. His victory came amid an attempt to delegitimize election results — a pattern for more than a 150 years.
In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Mike Pence rejected the possibility of stripping President Trump of his powers through the 25th Amendment.
Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation has tilted the high court's ideological balance. What should the court’s future be, and who gets to decide it?
Abortion access would decline in large regions of the country, a new data analysis shows.