The Southern Poverty Law Center did not give a reason for firing Morris Dees, 82, but said that it was “committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization.”

A judge has ruled that the public cannot know the details of a battle between the US government and Facebook on whether or not the social network could be forced to decrypt Facebook Messenger calls… The U.S. Justice Department applied for a court order forcing Facebook to decrypt the calls, something which would appear technically impossible since the app uses end-to-end encryption – meaning Facebook doesn’t have the key.

The legal left has a money problem, a history problem and—maybe worst of all—a big-idea problem.

Conservatives emerged from the Bork battle bent on winning control. It took 31 years. How will progressives respond?

The conservative legal movement has long cultivated law students and young lawyers, partly to ensure a deep bench of potential judicial nominees

What is reasonable in a tech industry nondisclosure? Tech firms often ask employees and business partners to sign nondisclosure agreements—even when doing so is overkill. Learn what to look for in NDAs to ensure they work for everybody.

Gamble v. United States isn’t related to the Russia investigation. But the outcome—which one senior Republican senator has tried to influence—could still have consequences for the probe.  

"The Republicans move in lockstep, and so do the Democrats," the Notorious RBG said at George Washington University

Thanks to ruthless discipline — and a plan long in the making — the G.O.P is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary.

What happens when the Supreme Court becomes significantly more conservative than the public?

Sometimes, fashion's greatest power is its stealth -- its ability to turn up in unlikely places, on unlikely people, and in the smallest details. Consider the case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

India’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death penalty for three men convicted in the gang rape of a young woman in Delhi in 2012, a landmark case that brought an unprecedented level of attention to violence against women in the country. The brutal rape of the 23-year-old medical student, who died of her injuries, had sparked nationwide outrage and forced changes in the law. But six years later, there are few signs that sexual violence against women is abating.

The Supreme Court’s latest term of almost uniformly hard-right decisions ended last week with the surprise announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy had decided to retire from the Court. What comes next is almost certain to be an ever more reactionary Court, with Justices Thomas and Gorsuch leading an empowered bloc toward reconsidering established doctrines across the board (abortion rights being only the tip of the iceberg).

The forced dismissal of the judges, including the court’s president, has provoked cries of “Soviet-style justice” while posing a test for the European Union.

The announcement gives President Trump the opportunity to create a solid five-member conservative majority and fundamentally change the direction of the court.

The Polish Supreme Court ruled this week against a print-shop worker who refused to create a banner for an LGBT group, a decision hailed as a victory by gay rights groups in the country.

A Pakistani law student has emerged as a women’s rights crusader after she was stabbed 23 times in a busy street only to see her alleged attacker walk free, igniting outrage across the deeply patriarchal country. Khadija Siddiqui, 23, survived the frenzied attack in broad daylight outside her sister’s school on a busy thoroughfare in the teeming eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural capital, in May 2016.

As Italy’s new government prepares to challenge the European Union, Poland has a timely lesson for how quickly a particular brand of politics can change a country.

A case about a stolen motorcycle has major ramifications for Americans’ right to live free from police intrusions.