Last week, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division took the unusual step of suing California and Virginia over their gun laws, marking what officials say is an unprecedented effort to enforce ...
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"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." That's all the Equal Rights Amendment says. No mention even of women. Just 24 ...
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority’s Second Amendment jurisprudence: It is a freewheeling policy project utterly unmoored ...
The Supreme Court has a history of facilitating the war on drugs by whittling away at civil liberties, to the point that critics have long perceived a "drug exception" to the Bill of Rights. But last ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – New political commercials are dropping this week in Missouri as the campaign for proposed constitutional Amendment 5 heats up. The amendment, appearing on the August ballot, asks ...
Missouri's proposed Amendment 4 would require constitutional amendments to pass in all eight congressional districts. This new rule would have blocked a 2016 tax-cut amendment, despite it passing with ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The campaign is heating up for a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder to amend the state constitution itself. Amendment 4 would raise the threshold needed ...
The City of Philadelphia and its police department are under a federal investigation for possible violations of the Second Amendment, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The investigation is ...
Hundreds of people across the country have faced retaliation for exercising their First Amendment right to record ICE and other federal agents deployed in their communities. Across the country, people ...
US President Donald Trump’s recent intemperate exchanges with the pope, his depiction of himself as a Christ-like figure and his threat to wipe out the civilisation of Iran have raised questions about ...
Democrats in Congress are moving to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump, introducing a bill on April 14 that would create a commission to assess whether he is fit to remain in ...