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Anti-gay marriage proponents should think twice before asking the US Supreme Court to take this case.

We need a constitutional amendment to stem the flood of corporate money that’s poisoning our democracy.

Hank Skinner was scheduled to die on November 9, but his execution was halted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Will the state finally agree to test the evidence in his case?

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a giant of the civil rights movement known for his decades of work in support of desegregation, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama.

As prisoners in California resume their hunger strike, it’s important to consider what legal strategies might end the cruel practice of long-term solitary confinement.

The unspoken answer that runs through Scalia’s opinion, and that of the Court down though the ages, is that violence is normal, while sex is obscene.

The author of The New Jim Crow says that it will take a grassroots movement to tackle our country's addiction to mass incarceration.

Special interest groups poured millions of undisclosed dollars into Wisconsin's 2011 Supreme Court election. But the state's new public financing system allowed the candidates to get their message to voters without relying on contributions from lawyers who appear before them in court.

The pope failed to take decisive action in response to clear evidence of a criminal underground in the priesthood.

How Scott Walker’s unionbusting spurred a popular uprising.