Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now says it will push a court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case.

The Supreme Court punted the case of Louisiana’s gerrymandered congressional map last month and that’s a shame. The Court has ...

More than a dozen state bills — and three new laws mandating the Ten Commandments in public schools — are virtually identical ...

"The 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court will decide what they want and then try to rationalize it," one First Amendment advocate told Newsweek.

In a July 15 Politics, Nitish Pahwa misstated that John Kennedy is a U.S. senator from Texas. He is a senator from Louisiana. Slate strives to correct all errors of fact. If you’ve seen an error in ...

The following report is part of a Verite News series: "Devil's Bargain: How the slave trade built and sustained New Orleans" ...

Next month marks the 60 th anniversary of the passing of the Voting Rights Act—a law often celebrated as the “crown jewel” of ...

Arizona had a 15-week ban in place for most of the last three years. Last November, Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights through fetal via ...

Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...

Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, barring a last-day reprieve. He was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to death for the murders ...

The Roberts Court has asked for reargument in a key redistricting case, a move that strongly suggests the conservative ...

The Louisiana Judiciary Commission last week recommended the unpaid time off for Medley, along with costs of about $5,500 from an investigation that led to four misconduct charges against her. The ...