Civil Rights

Three main developments were reported: 1) Maine Democrat Graham Platner announced he is ending his U.S. Senate campaign after a former girlfriend accused him of rape...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, held that a Louisiana prisoner, Damon Landor, cannot sue individual prison guards for mon...

PBS NewsHour reported that thousands of protesters were expected on the National Mall on Friday for a rally in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of t...

An NPR and Marshall Project investigation documents how the federal prison grievance process often prevents incarcerated people from reporting abuse and pursuing cou...

At an event at St. Mark's Episcopal Church near the Supreme Court, Lynne Jackson, a great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, and Charlie Taney, great-great-grandneph...

The Guardian reports that the Trump administration finalized a federal rule that would end coverage of gender-affirming care through Medicaid and the Children’s Heal...

An analysis by The Marshall Project of federal child-welfare data (NDACAN and CDC birth counts) covering fiscal years roughly 2018–2024 found that the parents of Bla...

The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion concluding that disparate-impact liability under federal civil-rights law is unconstitutional, ...

The Supreme Court this week allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminates against Black voters, in a decision that ...

An opinion piece in The Guardian by Lateefah Simon and Guillermo Mayer reports that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a regulatory change that, a...

The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a written opinion concluding that the 1999 Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. LC does not impose a...

The Trump administration announced plans to move two Education Department offices to other federal agencies: the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Servi...