The Rivers State Government has responded to the Supreme Court rulings that declared Martins Amaewhule the Speaker of the ...
Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez's story is told in the documentary short, "I Am Ready, Warden," which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won his case ...
"Spell Freedom," by Elaine Weiss, is about Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins and others who secretly helped prepare Black Southerners to embrace their civil rights.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — For most people in Florida, misdemeanor theft can result in up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. For ...
This resolution, it simply provides the message to these people in South Dakota that they are second-class citizens." ...
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate outside of the North Dakota Capitol in August 2016. A trial brought by pipeline developer Energy Transfer against Greenpeace is underway in Mandan.
The bipartisan program gives students a chance to get an up close look at inner workings of the federal government.
Gov. Janet Mills announced the nomination of Julia Lipez several days after Maine's chief justice highlighted vacancies in ...
An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal from the Saskatchewan government over a lawsuit alleging a Métis ...
Litman is the author of Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes and co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny ...
Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner Jr. hadn't killed anyone when he was put away at age 20 as an accomplice to a 1997 murder. He got a life sentence without possibility of parole. That wouldn't happen today.