A civil rights advisory committee released a report this week, finding that Louisiana’s involuntary commitment law appears to violate due process rights under the 14th Amendment.

In the United States, due process is meant to safeguard against government overreach. The clause states that no state may ...

Here are 12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year.

Discover what the Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is. Learn about the timeline of women’s suffrage and how it ...

They’ve made it incredibly difficult to sue federal officers for abuse of power, no matter how egregious,” says David Gans, a ...

"That’s not education — that’s censorship," said the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts chapter, ...

This administration is moving America ever farther from its core values. The Founding Fathers would recognize this governance ...

Now Trump and his goons are saying "you can't have guns" and that they executed an American citizen because he was expressing his Second Amendment rights. What part of the Bill of Rights do they ...

The state is in a standoff with the federal government over who has the power to investigate the killing of protesters. It’s ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit against the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, alleging that the ...

The Trump administration is accusing California’s top public medical school of racial discrimination in its admissions ...

I was appalled by the false equivalence letter writer P. Johnsen of Scaggsville employed when comparing today’s claimants of sanctuary status with the views of the pre-Civil War war pro-slavery ...