Adam Liptak, The Times’s chief legal affairs correspondent, is writing a new weekly newsletter, The Docket, to help demystify the justice system.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

A Virginia judge has dealt a blow to Democrats’ efforts to redraw the commonwealth’s 11 congressional districts in a bid to pick up seats ahead of this year’s mid-term election. Tazewell County ...

On Saturday, federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse and U.S. citizen, as he helped another protester whom agents had pushed to the ground. Trump ...

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this ...

APTOPIX Immigration Enforcement Minnesota Teresa Hurst waves an upside-down American flag on top of a car during a rally against federal immigration enforcement on ...

The great comedian Dave Chappelle once said, "The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out." There's nothing funny about what's happening ...