The Code of Justinian, a collection of laws compiled by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, is widely regarded as the foundation of Western law.

Accurate scrutiny should begin with precision about what the law actually says, how it functions legally, and where ...

Legal experts say the reality of being in the U.S. without legal status is more nuanced, even as public debate often labels ...

Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court from the 1970s and 1980s recognized a narrow exception to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 under ...

The Real Story - A Column Hillsboro, Oregon, is struggling with the codification of Sanctuary Promise laws and whether the ...

The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA), enacted in 1996, requires defendants convicted of certain federal crimes to pay ...

President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops in Minneapolis amid escalating protests against ICE operations.

“Will Trump attack Greenland?” The president has repeatedly said the U.S. will take action there “whether they like it or not,” including military force as an option, claiming the island must not fall ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that anyone born on American soil is a citizen—has deep roots in English common law and was applied in the Colonial era and early years of the American republic.