Justice
October 27, 2008 -
Federal agents have broken up a plot allegedly hatched by two neo-Nazi skinheads from Tennessee and Arkansas to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports.
October 27, 2008 -
Some pundits would like to see the Voting Rights Act done away with -- particularly its provisions mandating special oversight of most Southern states because of their history of racially motivated vote
October 24, 2008 -
The federal appeals court in Atlanta today stayed the execution of Troy Davis, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Monday evening.
October 24, 2008 -
Will this be "The Year of the Black Voter?"
October 24, 2008 -
A settlement reached this week will allow a minister to continue registering eligible voters currently incarcerated in Alabama's prisons.
October 21, 2008 -
California is seeing a slew of gay couples rushing to get marriage licenses this month, a movement that is only expected to accelerate over the next three weeks.
October 20, 2008 -
Yesterday, Barack Obama held a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.