Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the ...

Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday in a major voting rights case, Louisiana v. Callais, that threatens to undermine the Voting Rights Act. Follow here for the latest live news ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are ...

Justice Clarence Thomas defended the Supreme Court's recent landmark rulings that have overruled some key precedents.

“Of course, the Framers did not expect the President to do everything personally,” wrote Nelson, whose views have been cited ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...

Over the past few months, there has been simmering tension and a shift in tone between the high court and lower courts ...

The ACLU is at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais. Follow live coverage of the fight to defend ...

Not since the pro-slavery court before the Civil War has a Supreme Court been as ill-suited as the Roberts court that opens a ...