May 14, 1973: Supreme Court Rules on Frontiero v. Richardson Gender Discrimination Case
On May 14, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Frontiero v. Richardson, addressing gender discrimination in military benefits. Th...
On May 14, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Frontiero v. Richardson, addressing gender discrimination in military benefits. Th...
The U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, approved Alabama’s gerrymandered congressional map for the 2026 midterms in a 6-3 partisan...
The Supreme Court's recent decision gutting the Voting Rights Act has triggered a wave of Republican-led redistricting efforts to eliminate majority-B...
A Manhattan trial court ruled that misgendering does not constitute a tort under New York law. Justice Gerald Lebovits denied a motion requiring corre...
A federal monitor found that the NYPD failed to review over 2,000 stop-and-frisks conducted by its Community Response Team over the past three years,...
Tennessee’s recent redistricting has effectively disenfranchised Black voters after a Supreme Court ruling allowed states to dismantle Black-majority...
On May 7, 1873, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died. Just one month prior, he had dissented in the landmark Slaughter-House Cases and was the sole diss...
An investigation by ProPublica reveals at least 79 children across the U.S. were harmed by federal immigration agents' use of tear gas and pepper spra...
The U.S. Department of Education has opened a Title IX investigation into Smith College for admitting transgender women, alleging violations of the 19...
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses the Supreme Court’s latest decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act and its implications for Black represent...
Willie Simon, chair of the Shelby County Democratic Party in Tennessee, reflects on the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision gutting a key Voting Rights Act...
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a major blow to the Voting Rights Act, with Justices Samuel Alito, Jr., Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Chi...
The Supreme Court’s latest ruling narrows Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, reducing federal protections in a rapidly diversifying America. With rac...
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to gut the Voting Rights Act empowers local governments to redraw electoral maps without considering minority voting...
Justice Elena Kagan sharply criticized the Supreme Court's recent decision, warning it undermines decades of progress in racial equality. The dissenti...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down key protections of the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, effectively ending...
The U.S. Supreme Court narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, ruling Louisiana’s 2022 congressional map unconstitutional. The decision cou...
On April 15, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Inde...
America’s multiracial population surged from 9 million in 2010 to 33.8 million in 2020, yet outdated data systems still classify race in rigid categor...
Donald Trump suggests a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center could overturn the 2020 election. The SPLC, a civil rights group founded in 19...
Lowe’s Home Improvement faces mounting pressure to sever ties with Flock Safety, a surveillance firm whose AI-powered cameras and license plate reader...
The U.S. Justice Department, led by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, has sided with the Ku Klux Klan in a legal dispute involving the Southern Po...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for allegedly funneling $3 million to white nationalists and extrem...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) disclosed a federal criminal investigation into its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups....