A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat.

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to ...

The Civil Rights Division was created to protect the disempowered. Under Trump, it’s working to dismantle gun restrictions.

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The Associated Press at 9:31 p.m. has said Proposition One, the Equal Protection of Law ballot measure, has passed in New York State and will be added to the state constitution.

New York Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank found that if the New York Equal Rights Amendment repealed the judicial age cap, ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression educated roughly a dozen students and faculty about their First Amendment rights and civil discourse on college campuses at a Thursday event. FIRE ...

The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday rejected what it called the “baseless” statement by United Nations High Commissioner for ...

On August 15, 2025, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2487, amending the Illinois Human Rights Act ("IHRA") to make two key changes of which Illinois employers should be aware. The new law ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...