The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act. The state asked a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much harder to ...

A multistate coalition argues that birthright citizenship is a fundamental right protected by the 14th Amendment.

One of President Donald Trump's executive orders offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a ...

The Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines to approve Scott Turner’s nomination for Housing and Urban Development secretary. He previously served as the executive director of the White House ...

A federal judge in Seattle temporarily halted President Donald Trump's executive order denying automatic citizenship to people born on US soil.

President Donald Trump blasted rivals during his first televised interview since becoming the nation's 47th president on ...

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Lee Gelernt with the ACLU said the action goes "way beyond anything that even President Trump has tried in the past." ...

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the ...

On Monday night, January 20 — his first night back in the White House — President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to end birthright citizenship. And a long list of lawsuits quickly ...

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...