Work permits can be a crucial solution to the housing crisis faced by recently arrived immigrants.

Over one year after Roe v. Wade's fall, women's reproductive rights are in jeopardy. Fourteen states have banned abortions, and some are targeting contraception.

The Supreme Court decided on June 15, 2023, in Haaland v. Brackkeen that the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA") passed in 1978 was constitutional. The majority opinion by Justice Barrett did not decide the equal protection challenge to the Act and its concomitant implications.

Approximately 80,000 people in this country are held in solitary confinement while numerous challenges to solitary confinement in state and federal courts continue.

One public system designed to intervene when children and families are in crisis – the child welfare system -- is causing more harm than help.

For almost two decades, United States Customs and Immigration Enforcement has maintained a practice of confiscating passports, birth certificates, visas, and other essential documents from immigrants seeking to enter the United States resulting in a pattern of abuse.

Over the past two decades, debt buyers—companies that buy old debts for pennies on the dollar—have filed millions of debt collection lawsuits and obtained millions of default judgments, against low-income New Yorkers, mostly those in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods.

The story of the movement for LGBTQ+ equality over the past half century has been one of remarkable progress punctuated by moments of anti-equality reaction.

Civil rights activists ask with much trepidation how much the decisions in this 2023 term will the conservative Supreme Court, with its 6 to 3 majority, damage the pursuit of social justice in the United States?