The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a lawsuit alleging that the state executive branch, including Gov. Phil Bryant, violated the state constitution by cutting the 2017 budget.
The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a lawsuit alleging that the state executive branch, including Gov. Phil Bryant, violated the state constitution by cutting the 2017 budget.
We’re deeply alarmed by this trend of people associated with hate groups joining the Trump administration.
During a traffic stop last summer in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Seti Johnson was surprised to learn that his driver's license had been revoked for unpaid traffic tickets.
On May 27, 1958, Ernest Green became the first black student to graduate from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. He was among the group of black teens — known as the Little Rock Nine — who had integrated the school in 1957.
Tyler Haire was 16 when he was locked up. He was 20 before he went to trial.
The nomination of Ronald Mortensen as assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration is an outrage – another shameful example of President Trump reaching into the ranks of far-right extremist groups to fill powerful positions in his administration.
The SPLC strongly opposes the suggestion this week by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that schools can report undocumented students to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Attorney General Jeff Sessions' ideologically driven decision today to bypass the immigration courts and decide himself to remove another avenue of relief for immigrants undermines due process and the rule of law.
President Trump said at a conference on sanctuary cities this week: “These are not people. These are animals.”
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