The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on Thursday filed a legal challenge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) ....

A three-judge panel in North Carolina issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday that limits a law stripping the state's new governor, Roy Cooper , of some of his powers. The law required Senate approval...

The Texas Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would effectively ban so-called sanctuary cities, requiring cities to be in compliance with federal immigration law. SB 4 would require law enforcement in cities and on college campuses to hold...

The Mississippi House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would allow execution by firing squad, nitrogen gas or electrocution if the current method of execution, lethal injection, is deemed unconstitutional by a court....

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday rejected a challenge by the US Chamber of Commerce to a rule governing retirement investment advice. The regulation requires...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday issued an order to enjoin the proposed merger of health insurance giant Anthem and Cigna . The US Department of Justice...

The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday approved SB 3 , putting Pennsylvania in line to become the seventeenth state to pass a bill banning abortions past 20 weeks. The bill passed the Senate by a 32-18 vote, leaving...

US Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was confirmed as Attorney General by a 52 to 47 vote on Wednesday, bringing to a close a contentious confirmation process. The committee hearing on his nomination included testimony on Sessions'...

A coalition of advocacy groups filed suit in federal court Monday to challenge a Trump administration executive order aimed at reducing federal regulations. Public Citizen, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the union Communications Workers of America...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday that immigrants who are caught entering the US illegally have no right to legal representation in an expedited hearing. A law passed in 1996...