United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the military will livestream the firing squad execution ...

Last night, one or more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot and injured Oscar Belgal, an immigrant man ...

On October 5, 2026, it was announced that President Trump greenlit the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since ...

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) strongly condemns the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s release of proposed regulations on the nation’s first ever federal private school voucher program. The federal ...

Jonathon Harris, then-student body president at Clarksdale High School, approached his school’s administrators with a request brought to him by many of his fellow Black students: they wanted a Black ...

In 2018, Washington became the second state in the country to pass a State Voting Rights Act (VRA). Modeled after the successful, but narrower, California Voting Rights Act of 2001, the Washington ...

On March 31, 2026, President Trump issued a sweeping Executive Order seeking once again to seize control of election administration from Congress and the states and interfere with mail voting ...

Law enforcement officers are ill-equipped to address most 911 calls. 1 Policing has become a catch-all response for issues stemming from inadequate support for and investment in the health and ...

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Federal judges are crucial to the preservation of our democracy and the rule of law. The decisions made by our federal judges have resounding impacts on our everyday lives and our civil rights. To ...

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the ...