Justice

Our fundamental freedoms will always be filtered through the goals and desires of people in power.

The Secure the Border Act of 2023, includes a provision that would eliminate funding for immigration attorneys for children—forcing 3- and 4-year-olds to face the legal system alone.

That is what being a Catholic sister is about.

"If you're like me, this settlement may have left you feeling a little deflated," the legal analyst said.

Half the country is enraged by what they feel is a system now overtly tilted against them.

No democracy has had more transforming elections and more successful demonstrations than Israel. The recent turnabout in the Netanyahu government's plan to rush through a one-sided judicial "reform" is just the latest example of Israel's raucous democracy at work.

Law enforcement officials still describe it as the most gruesome crime scene they have ever encountered.

If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu had known the reaction it would get, he never would have launched the package of legislation he and his extreme-right-wing allies have dubbed, in proper Orwellian fashion, the "judicial reform."

Every judicial vacancy needs to be taken seriously and every judicial candidate scrutinized for their commitment to multiracial democracy and to fundamental freedoms.

The state is "deliberately indifferent to the systemic overdetention of people in its custody," said the Justice Department after a two-year investigation.

Sources told Newsweek that the FBI "would have been concerned about appearing to undo the will of a sitting president" in its investigation of Kavanaugh.

The secretly filmed documentary focuses on the way the FBI failed to properly investigate thousands of tips received in 2018.

The lawyer and former president must jointly pay nearly $1 million in costs after filing 2016 election lawsuits against 31 people, including Hillary Clinton.

Trump should expect a "series of indictments" over his role in the Capitol riot, according to legal scholar Laurence Tribe.

As a country, we've always prioritized punishment and incarceration over prevention and support. Tough on crime policies have failed over and over again.

Katie Wee shares how she helped to imprison the ballet teacher who abused her in this exclusive essay.

"He must be forced off the Court," Keith Olbermann wrote Saturday on Twitter.

The Supreme Court's likely ban on race as a consideration in college admissions is also expected to impact hiring, government contracts, financial aid—and more.

We have an opportunity to fight gun violence, but to do it, we need to make community violence intervention programs a core pillar of America's public safety strategy.

What does a person who's spent more than two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit do on International Wrongful Conviction Day?

In both instances, teenage girls were killed by teenage boys in Miami and the same court ruled that both of the killings were manslaughter.

Anthony Davis, of South Florida, was given a life sentenced in 1982 for armed robberies.

The former president has not been charged with any crime but speculation has grown since the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.

The Jordanian woman who planted the bomb at the pizzeria, who scouted central Jerusalem and selected the target site because of the many children inside, who later called the carnage "my operation," was shockingly set free.

Thwart the impending decision in Moore v. Harper by flipping more state legislatures.

Republicans are already gearing up to contest and sow distrust in the upcoming midterms. Democrats cannot afford to cross their fingers, hoping that the right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court will make the right decision and uphold democracy.

A Boeing 747 cargo aircraft was grounded at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport on June 9. The suspicions are that the Venezuelan plane, recently owned by Iran's U.S.-sanctioned Mahan Air and sold to Emtrasaur airlines, is not what it seems to be.

The West Virginia Democrat previously voted with Republican to confirm the two Trump-nominated conservative justices.

Here's how and why big cities should take note.

Leila Sadat, the ICC prosecutor's special adviser on crimes against humanity, told Newsweek: "It's a problem of double standards."