In 1970 she broke an unwritten rule against women lawyers in the Southern District’s criminal division. She went on to mentor ...

Montana voters approved a constitutional amendment in November to protect access to abortion. What would federal ...

With the state’s family shelter system under pressure from mounting costs and violent on-site incidents, Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday recommended statutory changes to the<a class="excerpt-read-more" ...

Last year, the state Legislature passed a law to seal people’s old criminal convictions. Now cops want the same treatment.

You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?” the jurist asked to laughter ...

A Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of users before allowing them access will go before the Supreme ...

The vote suggested that a period of political warfare between G.O.P. factions would continue to shape lawmaking in the state.

In South Carolina, it is illegal to work on Sundays and for anyone 18 years old or younger to operate a pinball machine.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks shares updates from her first week in the 119th Congress. Highlights include electing the ...

A new federal law should help state and university leaders combat the practice. The law, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, ...

Feel your commitment to your New Year’s resolution flagging already? Skinner’s law is decades old, but it is still the ...