With Donald Trump's America showing zero commitment to democracy, the rule of law, human rights or free trade, is it time to ...

This statute was part of the Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, and was designed to stop the ...

The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if ...

While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

The top court of the United Nations on Wednesday declared that countries have an obligation to combat climate change — and that a failure to do so could constitute a violation of international ...

State laws requiring the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms keep losing in court, but that won’t matter if they win ...

The U.S. "should not reward illegal entry into our country with automatic citizenship for the children of lawbreakers,” Rep.

A constitutional contest is brewing over the role of judges in selecting federal prosecutors.

The Trump administration last week sued the state of California over its laws requiring eggs sold in the state to come from animals raised under certain conditions, prompting denunciations from animal ...

The release of National Archives documents is the latest attempt to define what the Civil Rights icon believed, and what that ...

The State Department did not say how he came to be released alongside a group of “wrongfully detained” prisoners.