In response to a preclearance request to approve Texas’s new voter ID laws, the Justice Department asked for voting data on race. Texas said it doesn’t have it because it’s “colorblind.”

Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned California’s 2008 ballot initiative Proposition 8. How will that decision affect other laws nationwide?

Shelby County, Alabama is claiming that Congress overstepped its powers by re-authorizing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, because voter discrimination isn’t what it used to be.

Section 5 of 1965′s Voting Rights Act requires certain states to get federal approval before making voting law changes. Opponents want the Supreme Court to strike it down.

Despite strong efforts to argue otherwise, waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” are illegal under both domestic and international law.

Debate has raged over the legality of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, even before it occurred. Nevertheless, the President has wide deference under U.S. laws in his military decisions.

The aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks saw major changes to how the U.S. treats captured enemy fighters, and the future is still uncertain.

The changes to airport security was one of the most immediate changes felt after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and they have continued since then.

In an effort to prevent teacher-student sexual abuse, Missouri passed a law last month forbidding online communications between teachers and students. The provision is almost certainly unconstitutional.

Three Minnesota groups are suing the state for laws they claim violate the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling. Will this be Citizens United Part 2?