Democrats bash court diversity ruling
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Democratic presidential candidates stood united Thursday night against the Supreme Court and its historic ruling rolling back a half-century of school desegregation laws. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said the conservative court "turned the clock back" on history.
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Democrats escalated attacks on the National Labor Relations Board at a congressional hearing yesterday, accusing the panel's Republican majority of turning the nation's labor laws "inside out" by making it harder for workers to form unions.
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JACKSON, Miss., June 29 -- The head of a Mississippi Democratic Party organization illegally suppressed white residents' votes, a federal judge ruled Friday in the first case filed by the Justice Department alleging that whites were subjected to voting discrimination based on their race.
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House Democratic lawmakers on  Wednesday ramped up the pressure on the Justice Department to  fight a federal court ruling that could allow energy companies  to avoid paying the government billions of dollars in oil and  natural gas royalties.
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Democrats with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton failed in court Thursday to prevent casino workers from caucusing at special precincts in Nevada.
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The court's ruling puts a chink in campaign finance law, but it also shows the ideological limits of the Roberts Court
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House Democrats declared that the latest case against the leader of the Republican majority proved that he was unfit to lead.
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Democrats running for president used a national meeting of trial lawyers on Sunday to attack other lawyers, pillorying Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and ridiculing recent decisions by the conservative-tilting Supreme Court.
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President Bush&#39;s move to renominate 20 judicial candidates whose confirmations have been blocked by Senate Democrats sets the stage for a bitter procedural battle that
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Even as President Bush last week named four candidates to fill long-standing vacancies on federal appeals courts, conservative legal activists were spoiling for a fight over what they call the unfair treatment of the president's judicial nominees.
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Leslie H. Southwick won confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit over the objections of civil rights organizations and many Democrats.
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The Supreme Court swept aside complaints that the state chooses its trial judges through a system that favors party cronies and gives voters no real say.
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House Democratic leaders on Thursday sought removal of two recently appointed Republicans from the ethics committee, questioning whether their judgment would be influenced by contributions to Majority Leader Tom DeLay's legal defense fund.
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Outpolled, outmaneuvered and out of power, Democrats are suffering an identity crisis.
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WASHINGTON Â The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling that says the FBI was wrong to raid Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's office, a decision the Bush administration argues will hinder corruption investigations of Congress.
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Ohio Democrats did not have the right to challenge a state requirement that voters show up at their assigned polling place to cast a ballot, lawyers for the Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday.
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Blog: A day after a federal agency urged against new rules for broadband operators, Democratic leaders in Congress say they're not giving up on enacting the divisive anti-discrimination laws.