Mark Lee Dickson (far right), director of Right to Life East Texas, prays in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)…
Family members of incarcerated individuals, including mothers and spouses, testified in front of lawmakers in March saying their past criminal records, sometimes decades olds, meant they are kept from seeing…
When Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus met during the final days of the 2024 General Assembly, the goal was to communicate their differences on…
JULY 1, 1870 Congress created the Department of Justice to handle the flood of post-Civil War litigation. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Amos T. Akerman, whose priority became the protection…
The sun is reflected in the National Monument to Freedom in Montgomery, Alabama on June 26, 2024. The monument is inscribed with the names of 122,000 families listed in the…
Mark Lee Dickson (far right), director of Right to Life East Texas, prays in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)…
Mark Lee Dickson (far right), director of Right to Life East Texas, prays in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)…
The U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Policy, politics and progressive commentary WASHINGTON — A former Pennsylvania police officer who joined the Jan. 6, 2021, attack…
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm campaigns for President Joe Biden at an event in Canton, Mich., on June 30, 2024. Granholm appeared in her personal capacity as a former governor of…
The North Carolina Legislative Building (Photo: Clayton Henkel) The legislative short session raced out to a hot start this year, with Republicans imposing a sense of inevitably as they moved…