Remember when Indiana Jones nonchalantly chose to hip-shoot his way out of a duel with a threatening swordsman? It was pragmatism over pageantry. Simple versus struggle. Bullet beats blade.

An opinion Wednesday by Chief Judge Thomas Kleeh (N.D. W. Va.) in Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, Inc. v. Pickens deals with a rule of the West Virginia state bar, which is organized as a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that could fundamentally change the role that race plays in elections across the country — and Louisiana is at the center of it. Louisiana v. Callais is, ...

At center, a depiction of a parade in celebration of the passing of the 15th Amendment. Framing it are portraits and vignettes illustrating the rights granted by the 15th Amendment: "We till our own ...

The Supreme Court recently delivered in Callais v. Louisiana a ruling that demolished the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely characterized as the crown jewel of the civil rights movement ...

March 30, 1981: President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton, recovered, and gunman John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty.