By Fred Redmond, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer In our workplaces, in our communities and in our government, the right to vote is how working people make our voices...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2020, Pew Research found “49% of all registered voters either identify as Democrats or lean to the party, while 44% identify as...
CINCINNATI HERALD — The law is subject to interpretation. Interpretation of the law lays on the altar of perspective. For example, the recalcitrant White culture encoded...
The case, revolving around charges related to the Capitol riot, includes accusations against the twice-impeached and four-times indicted former President Donald Trump.
By Emil Guillermo Was the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg — the man who could make history as the first prosecutor to indict a former president —...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Three of the Trump’s appointees, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch are viewed as more likely than their colleagues to...
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — Let’s start with gerrymandering—that is, when a political party shapes the boundaries of an electorate so it favors them—which the Supremes already ruled...
THE AFRO — Maryland lawmakers are taking action to manage prescription drug prices and gouging, by working to create a Prescription Drug Affordability Board in the...
THE AFRO — For almost a century, Peace Cross has stood in the District of Columbia suburbs, as a symbol to recognize the fallen soldiers during...
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The case before the Supreme Court pitted a popular anti-crime bill passed by Congress three decades...
Larry O’Dell and Alan Suderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal court on Friday concluded for the second time that Virginia’s congressional boundaries...
Scott Bauer, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to Wisconsin’s voter identification law, after having blocked...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although a series of civil rights laws were enacted in the 1960s, in the 21st Century many of these victories...
Robert Barnes, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether hundreds of juvenile offenders sentenced to life...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One source of the widespread losses the Democratic Party suffered this month in the midterm elections can be traced to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old...
Sam Hananel, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November...
Ben Goad, THEHILL.COM WASHINGTON (The Hill)—The U.S. Supreme Court will dive back into questions involving the limits of executive branch power, religious freedom and scope of...
(Politico) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pushing back against suggestions that she should soon retire, saying President Barack Obama would be unable to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The two conflicting appeals court rulings last week on the legality of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Almost lost among the news last week about the war in the Middle East and a war of another...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions that the Court’s conservative majority and the larger conservative movement pretended...
By Bill Fletcher Jr. NNPA Columnist The Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Harris v Quinn essentially means that personal care attendants who are represented by a...
Sam Hananel, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public sector unions Monday, ruling that thousands of home health care...
Tony Perry, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Maura Dolan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times)—When David Riley, a 19-year-old member of San Diego’s Lincoln...
