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Ralph Petty likely violated the Constitution. In a rare move, a federal court signaled this week that lawsuits against him may not be dead on arrival.

The ACLU of Nevada filed a legal challenge against Clark County, challenging the ordinance that makes it a crime to stop, stand, or engage in an activity that causes another person to stop or stand on Las Vegas Strip bridges, calling it "unconstitutionally vague."

The federal lawsuit alleges a new county ordinance preventing stopping and standing on Strip pedestrian bridges violates the public’s First Amendment rights.

A federal judge has scheduled an April trial in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s law against felon voting. The case could help determine whether felons who have completed active prison time will take par

His determination to put the 14th Amendment in the trash can of history should draw the most concern.

If this is the standard by which partisan Democratic election officials will judge Republicans, then they should hold their side to the same standard, too.

It’s only 64 pages long, but it’s fully loaded with portraits of famous queer, mostly American, performers, playwrights, writers, artists and activists who have made a difference in the world. On facing pages of this 9 x 7.5” paperbound book we encounter 27 short bios (ca.

A court in the Southern District of Ohio has issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Social Media Parental Notification Act, an Ohio law that would require social...

 

However, it was the 14th Amendment, first drafted in 1866 and ratified in 1868, that would prove the most far-reaching and that today sits all too squarely