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While only 35 arrests were reported during the most recent, multi-city raids, the campaigns have caused widespread fear and tangible impacts on the daily routines of immigrant families.

The story of President Donald Trump's short-lived threat to get a citizenship question on the census in defiance of the Supreme Court mimics the story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.

The Basic Housing Law is a reaction to a significant and rapid escalation of housing prices and dearth of affordable homes.

Many Americans don't realize that breaking a law can sometimes be legally, as well as morally, permissible.

Investment companies such as hedge funds and private equity firms have escaped multiple efforts to subject them to rules meant to combat money laundering.

The deeply conservative judge's position on the court is one of many threats toward abortion rights.

Unions in the state have been unable to force public-employees to contribute to collective bargaining funds for almost 65 years, and yet they have managed to thrive.

The case once more raises the issue of persistent racial bias in North Carolina's history of sentencing black defendants.

The latest research suggests that we shouldn't be blaming environmental laws for inhibiting development.

There are no available statistics on how many men discreetly remove their condoms during sex, an act known informally as stealthing.

There's one long-term solution to the nuclear threat in the White House: disarmament.

The Central Asian nation has a far greater number of female prisoners jailed for murder of a male family member than other countries in the region.

If you're thorough about it, yes.

The company reneged on its 100 percent buyback policy, according to the suit.

An analysis of three decades of Supreme Court oral arguments finds male attorneys are treated more deferentially.

The former congressman's sentence includes a $10,000 fine and three years supervised release.

From weakening protections for survivors of sexual assault to axing protections for transgender students, the administration has made no secret of its animosity toward the Civil Rights Act.

Investigators say the Eagle Creek Fire was likely started by a boy's misuse of fireworks. Now Oregonians are calling for criminal charges.

Palin filed the suit in June, in response to an editorial the newspaper published following the shooting of a congressman.

Marcellus Williams maintains his innocence, and his supporters argue racial discrimination also played a role in his trial outcome.

Rulings in recent years have effectively forced consumers to file class actions in the region where the corporation is based or to disaggregate claims into separate filings.

Simpson was convicted of 12 offenses in 2008, including kidnapping and armed robbery.

By blocking people from his Twitter account, our lawsuit argues, the president has violated the First Amendment.

The ruling could change the way courts consider manslaughter cases in the future.