While there are exceptions, sheriffs have a long history of using their power to maintain a particular, unequal balance of ...

There is a long history of sheriffs reinforcing social inequality − both informally and by using formal powers of their ...

The proposed removal of the long-standing language on marriage is largely seen as symbolic, since the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Most Iowans oppose the state’s 6-week abortion ban, results show in the first Iowa Poll since the state Supreme Court ruled ...

A California judge said violations of a city ordinance from more than a century ago may be too likely to hinge on whether or ...

Pennsylvania’s new Dangerous Dog Law went into effect at the end of January this year after the passage of omnibus amendments ...

Rep. Scott Krug (R-Nekoosa), chair of the Assembly elections committee, says he'll introduce legislation next session to make ...

Law is no static thing. It does not sprout from the soil, like a tree. It doesn’t require a particular habitat to thrive, ...

Criminal justice reforms aimed at Massachusetts prisons have been met with "resistance and impunity," according to one ...

But no one is calling it a war — not yet. Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept rockets that were launched ...

Jennifer Edwards was a teenager in Arizona when she first read “Beloved,” Toni Morrison’s haunting novel about sexual ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a plastic bag bill that will ban stores from offering heavyweight "reusable" plastic bags ...