Donald Trump would not be the first president to invoke the Insurrection Act, as he has threatened, so that he can send U.S. military forces to Minnesota. But ...

The Perth Amboy Planning Board has approved a $200 million plan to transform a blighted brownfield site along the Arthur Kill into a waterfront neighborhood with more than 600 housing units. Kushner ...

A federal court ruled Wednesday that California may use a new congressional map designed to favor Democrats in the midterm ...

A federal judge upheld California's voter-passed congressional map. The map gives Democrats an advantage heading into the ...

In its 2-1 decision, the appeals court dismissed claims against Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson that sought to enjoin 23 of the law's provisions—but allowed other claims to continue. The appeals ...

Editor’s note: This is the first story in the “Crossing the Line” series about conservative efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting districts in a way that disenfranchises Black and Brown voters.

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp. In October 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant invoked the Third Anti-KKK Enforcement Act, ...

The mid-1870s were a period of significant cultural, economic, and technological transformation. During this time, people dressed in formal fashion and traveled by steamboat, buggy, or railroad.

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

As the Court again weighs the fate of the Voting Rights Act, new research shows that the 2013 decision that hollowed out the law’s protections dramatically increased the racial turnout gap. On March 7 ...

Ray Brescia is the Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Albany Law School. The law makes a few exceptions to its protection of free speech — not liking what you hear isn’t one of them.