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Ahead of 2024, voters have increasingly turned to state courts to challenge gerrymandered districts.

The former president made a slew of false claims in asking the Georgia secretary of state to overturn the 2020 election results.

Codes of ethics help shape professional identity, express values, and hold colleagues accountable.

More than three dozen states and localities have adopted powerful programs to counter big money in politics.

There are at least 38 pending lawsuits around the country where voters of color are challenging maps that will be immediately impacted by the Court’s decision.

The 2013 Supreme Court decision swung open the door for states to enact restrictive voting laws, making it harder for people of color to vote.

The Justice Department’s China Initiative formalized a program of xenophobic anti-Asian prejudice under the guise of combating Chinese economic espionage. Rather than protect national security, the program discriminated against Asian American academics and researchers, particularly those with ancestral or professional connections to China. While the China Initiative program was officially disbanded in 2022, the heated anti-China rhetoric and improper targeting of Chinese and Asian American scientists and scholars as national security threats has continued, causing harm to countless individuals and intensifying anti-Asian discrimination.

State legislatures have passed a near-record number of new restrictive voting laws so far this year, while a pro-democracy movement presses on.

Here are some of the most significant amicus fillings historians have made during the Court’s recent terms.

Judges of all stripes say “history and tradition” can’t guide decision-making.