Where mistrust between communities and law enforcement runs high, can people with criminal histories bridge the gap?
New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal.
In a new case, the justices will reconsider past decisions that have protected women’s ability to terminate their pregnancies.
One company has become the biggest provider of jail health care. Sheriffs are worried: “If you’re the only dance in town, you can pretty much call your own shots.”
A new rule would allow federal contractors to make hiring and firing decisions based on their religious beliefs and practices.
The senator from New York tried to paint the former vice president as regressive, tapping into bigger questions about the Democratic Party’s identity heading into 2020.
The notoriously quiet Supreme Court justice has had a far-reaching influence on the personnel of the Trump administration, which may be his most lasting legacy.
In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia based on evidence of racial disparities. Instead, it created a precedent that civil-rights advocates have been fighting for decades.
State legislators in Alabama and Georgia know that abortion bans will likely be overturned in lower courts. They are aiming higher.
A lawsuit to block the border wall could go the route the House GOP took in 2014 to challenge Obamacare.
With his solution to the border-wall impasse, the president seems to be working within the boundaries of law—revealing the massive power of the American executive.
Conservative Christian leaders are a major force behind criminal-justice legislation being considered in the Senate. But black and progressive clergy see danger in allying with the president, even on this issue.
At the time of his death, following a violent altercation with guards, Karl Taylor was one of thousands of mentally ill inmates who are confined to institutions that are supremely ill-equipped to handle them.
A new inquiry significantly escalates the involvement of secular authorities.
The Supreme Court nominee has become a symbol of the president’s quiet judicial legacy and the anti-Trump resistance.
The Eastern District of Virginia isn't called the “rocket docket” for nothing.
Trump's Supreme Court pick faces a brutal nomination fight ahead.
His “zero-tolerance” policy has been called “traumatic” and “cruel.” But his most stalwart supporters are sticking with him.
Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
The party is torn over a reform bill that just passed the House with the president’s support: Should it back modest changes to the criminal-justice system or hold out for more?