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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a full year, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been trying to hold the Trump administration accountable for violating a court order that prohibited the government from arbitrarily sending ...

With few judicial vacancies to fill, President Donald Trump is using each opportunity to pack the courts with proven loyalists. His recent appellate picks—Benjamin Flowers, Matthew Schwartz, and ...

Last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the County of Washtenaw, Michigan, and several of its local officials, accusing them of illegally interfering with federal immigration law.

One of the most persistent tropes in the legal profession is that judges, by virtue of being judges, are magically capable of deciding cases according to the law and the law alone. When asked during ...

In March, Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave a talk at the Library of Congress in which she urged Americans to take responsibility for upholding the rule of law and legal institutions. “Respect for the ...

The First Amendment is a blunt tool. Crafted by the Supreme Court intentionally to overprotect, the law of free speech does so by erring on the side of a sort of formalistic inanity. Federal judges ...