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The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Americans.

State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.

A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel to question climate science.

A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel to question climate science.

A federal judge dealt one blow to the effort when he found the administration had violated the law in handpicking a panel to question climate science.

Family reunification is often framed as a cost, but evidence shows it functions as social infrastructure that supports work, well-being and economic stability.

A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigration enforcement efforts should be carried out.

Smartphone video, ICE-tracking apps and 3D-printed whistles have been emblematic of the protests in Minneapolis. Social movements have long latched onto and been catalyzed by new technologies.

Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump's policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.

This is not a typical employment law case because Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, has far more legal rights to her job than most American workers.