Current federal law allows people to sue state or local governments for constitutional violations, but largely shields federal agents such as ICE.

The Joliet Police Department is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit for patting down a 12-year-old girl who was a passenger ...

WASHINGTON — Seizing on allegations of federal law enforcement officials' committing constitutional violations as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, Democrats have launched a new ...

EXCLUSIVE: An education watchdog is filing a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education (DOE) against the University of Wisconsin–Madison for alleged violations of Title IX, which ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. citizens will have a way to hold those who violate their civil rights accountable, thanks to a new web portal from the Department of Justice. “The department is committed to ...

The city of Antioch and civil rights attorney John Burris on Friday announced the settlement of long-standing police abuse cases involving 23 people and 45 police officers and three former police ...

Today in a historic ruling, a federal judge found that Virginia’s Constitution broke federal law by stripping the voting rights of every Virginian with a felony conviction, paving the way for ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing mounting scrutiny after human rights activists and civil liberties ...

A pattern of ill-advised management decisions reflecting “strategic neglect” and an ongoing lack of resources have fueled the backlog of thousands of worker complaints made to Oregon’s top labor ...

ROCKBRIDGE CO., Va. – There’s a new twist in the years-long legal saga involving the Natural Bridge Zoo and the Attorney General’s Animal Law Unit. Saturday, a lawyer representing zoo owner Gretchen ...

YouTube Screenshot Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota delivered remarks on the House floor opposing the Department of Hom ...

Civil disobedience is by nature violating the law to bring attention to a cause. Famously, civil disobedience by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others led to landmark legislation during the Civil ...