The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.

Working at the Justice Department used to be a prestigious gig in the legal profession. Now, its filings read like Trump ...

When President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4 percent overall, and at 5.3 percent for Black workers. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

In November 2024, shortly after President Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, an ambitious Florida state appeals court judge reached out to the office of Florida Republican Senator Rick ...

The technical questions in Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court will decide sometime next year, sound mostly like gibberish to people who are not already intimately familiar with several ...

As of March 2025, there were roughly 1.3 million people legally living and working in the United States as beneficiaries of a government-run humanitarian program called Temporary Protected Status.

In public, the chief justice loves talking about how the Supreme Court’s work is not political. His leaked memos reveal just ...

As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly ...

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...

Barely halfway through oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court case about President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, it ...

On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...