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 conversations about civil rights and constitutional change, we often look outward, to Washington, D.C., to Supreme Court ...
For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld ...
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.
The Trump administration demanded a Long Island school district restore its Thunderbirds mascot after a federal investigation ...
The Joliet Police Department is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit for patting down a 12-year-old girl who was a passenger ...
Discover what the Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is. Learn about the timeline of women’s suffrage and how it ...
Rather than repealing civil rights statutes outright, the Trump administration has disabled the mechanisms that make those ...
They’ve made it incredibly difficult to sue federal officers for abuse of power, no matter how egregious,” says David Gans, a ...
The lawsuit comes after police detained a 16-year-old in May while looking for a burglary suspect.
"That’s not education — that’s censorship," said the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts chapter, ...
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