The long-running fight over Georgia's district lines for Congress and the state legislature could have broader implications for the future of the Voting Rights Act.
The act aims to stop fraud and money laundering by requiring most U.S. businesses to disclose which owners control more than ...
The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected a GOP state high court candidate’s demand to expedite his election case against his sitting-Democratic justice rival, potentially empowering a federal court ...
While the High Court today stayed one Texas judge's injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership interest (BOI) reporting requirement, another Texas judge has gotten into ...
The plaintiffs in the case, including Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, a historically Black fraternity active in civil rights causes, claimed the enacted maps diminished Black voting power by failing to ...
Scholars who study governments around the globe say a legal challenge over a contested seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is similar to attempts to weaken democracy in other countries.
A federal court weighs the case of a teacher who refused to use students' chosen names and pronouns, as similar questions arise elsewhere.
The Supreme Court has revived the Corporate Transparency Act. Find out what that means for small businesses and BOI reporting.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. So at the last conference, the ...
A robbery in Maryland qualifies as a violent felony under a federal law providing sentence enhancements for felons who commit crimes with firearms if convicted three or more times, the U.S. Court of ...
The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act, asking a federal appeals court on Thursday to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much harder ...
The law requires potentially millions of local businesses to disclose their “beneficial owners,” or anyone with at least a 25% interest or who controls the business, to a federal regulator.