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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former President Donald Trump can’t be disqualified from 2024 ballots over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The case stemmed from Colorado’s effort to keep Trump off its ballots, which it justified using a section of the 14th Amendment that bans people who have “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. In its per curiam

Correction: A previous version of this story stated the bill was now headed to Gov. Jeff Landry's desk. The bill will head back to the House for concurrence on amendments added to it. Executions of Louisiana death row prisoners could soon resume after legislation to allow electrocutions and gassing received passage from Senate lawmakers on Wednesday. House Bill 6, passed by the state House and

A Tennessee bill that would authorize the death penalty as punishment for the rape of a child has moved forward following a heated debate during the Tennessee Senate Judiciary committee meeting on Tuesday. Senate Bill 1834 (SB1834), sponsored by Republican Sen. Jack Johnson, would allow the death penalty as a punishment for "rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated

The Alabama Constitution provides that "no religion shall be established by law" and that "the civil rights, privileges, and capacities of any citizen shall not be in any manner affected by his religious principles." Those prohibitions were forcefully reinforced in a 1998 Religious Freedom Amendment. Like similar provisions of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, those prohibitions