The fundamental rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to all individuals by law, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other personal characteristics.
The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a Miles City man's conviction for attempted deliberate homicide for threatening to stab a bar owner in the heart... More
January 4, 2022
A new federal court order says a Mississippi city must allow construction of a mosque, two months after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a... More
January 4, 2022
A firearms store and gun range in suburban Kansas City refused to let a Muslim woman use the range unless she removed her hijab, a... More
January 4, 2022
An Iowa man charged earlier for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was arraigned Tuesday on a new federal indictment... More
December 21, 2021
A Louisiana judge is taking an unpaid leave of absence after she repeatedly used a racial slur in a video recorded at her home and... More
December 16, 2021
By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman... More
December 16, 2021
Minneapolis ex-cop Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyd 's civil rights according to notice sent by... More
December 13, 2021
The Supreme Court on Friday left in place Texas' ban on most abortions, but ruled that clinics can sue over the state's most restrictive abortion law in... More
December 10, 2021
Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till it is ending latest investigation into 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted tortured... More
December 6, 2021
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery must decide... More
November 18, 2021
Henry Montgomery, 75, was convicted in the 1963 killing of East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy Charles Hurt, who caught him skipping school. More
November 17, 2021
Two California couples gave birth to each others' babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that weren't theirs before... More
November 8, 2021
The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. More
November 1, 2021
Arguments at the high court on Nov. 1 will help the justices decide whether the law -- the most restrictive abortion law in the nation... More
October 29, 2021
Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus... More
October 26, 2021
A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white... More
October 26, 2021
The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place but has agreed to hear arguments in the case... More
October 22, 2021
During jury selection in the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery trial, Vinnie Politan and Julia Jenae discuss how the process works and the types of jurors... More
October 21, 2021
Honolulu police officers and Hawaii public school officials discriminated against disabled Black child by handcuffing arresting interrogating girl for "run-of-the-mill" dispute says ACLU. More
October 18, 2021
National advocacy group for women blasted sentencing of a 21-year-old Oklahoma woman to prison for a manslaughter conviction after she suffered a miscarriage while using... More
October 18, 2021
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, More
October 18, 2021
The Biden administration said Friday it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned... More
October 15, 2021
33-year-old Texas woman drove alone hours through the night to get to Louisiana abortion clinic for consultation. She planned to sleep in her car but... More
October 14, 2021
Host Vinnie Politan and Court TV anchor Ted Rowlands take us through everything that has led to the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Trial and break... More
October 14, 2021
Texas asked a federal appeals court to swiftly reinstate the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. which until this week had banned most abortions... More
October 8, 2021
Abortions quickly resumed in some Texas clinics Thursday after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. but the court battle... More
October 7, 2021
A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation" of a constitutional right. More
October 7, 2021
The Supreme Court returned to the courtroom Monday for the start of a momentous new term after a nearly 19-month absence because of the coronavirus... More
October 4, 2021
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge is hearing arguments Friday over whether Texas can leave in place the... More
October 1, 2021
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Nearly a century ago, white leaders of a Southern California city robbed a Black family More
October 1, 2021
