Who is Don Lemon and what is Ku Klux Klan Act? This explainer details the 1871 law, its purpose, and how it surfaced after ...

The Mercy Johnson defamation case raises key questions about arrests, civil vs criminal defamation, and how Nigerian law ...

Civil rights, however, are only one side of the conservative inversion of the logic of civil rights legislation. A decades-long push from the conservative legal movement to dismantle the Voting Rights ...

Fraenkel had observed the rise of Nazi rule as a working lawyer and committed social democrat and noted that ordinary Germans ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson again demonstrated that she doesn't know that men can't become women.

The president has repeatedly suggested invoking the act during both his presidential terms, claiming there were parts of the ...

Through civil lawsuits, asset seizures, and legislative pressure, Israeli lawyers and victims’ families outlined how courts ...

At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the act, which is a rarely used power that Congress intended only for extreme emergencies. We break down what this means for our civil liberties.

Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which has not been used in more than three decades, over protests in ...

President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops in Minneapolis amid ...

What rights do U.S. citizens and non-citizens have when they encounter law enforcement? NPR's A Martinez speaks with ...