Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday voted against allowing a statewide vote on a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A total of 50 votes were needed to advance the amendment, but...

US Department of Justice (DOJ) civil rights investigations in the Bush administration have focused on issues of religious freedom and discrimination at the expense of race, the New York Times reported Thursday. As an extreme instance, the...

Permanent Mission v. New York, NY, US Supreme Court, June 14, 2007 . Read the Court's opinion per Justice Thomas,...

Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Washington v. Washington Education Association, US Supreme Court, June 14, 2007 [holding that states do not violate the First Amendment by requiring labor unions to obtain affirmative authorization from non-union workers before using their...

President George W. Bush told the Legislative Conference of the Associated Builders and Contractors Thursday that he supports an immigration bill amendment to provide $4.4 billion in immediate additional funding for border security , obtained through...

The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2007, Council on American-Islamic Relations, June 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the...

Javaid Iqbal v. Dennis Hasty, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, June 14, 2007 [holding that a former detainee allegedly arrested "solely because of race, religion, and national origin" and subjected to mistreatment can proceed with...

A US district judge Thursday rejected a request by former US vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby that his prison sentence for blocking the probe into the leak of CIA...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday told the lower house of Germany's parliament that she hopes a road map to an eventual European constitution can be achieved at an EU summit...

The Zimbabwean House of Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament, approved the controversial Interception of Communications Bill Wednesday, authorizing the the directors of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organization , the military, taxation authority, and the Commissioner of...