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

Around 3 AM on March 3, 2019, Roy Anthony Scott was in crisis. Scott, a 65-year-old Black man with a history of mental illness, believed that multiple assailants were outside his home—an apartment in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police continue to arrest women who have abortions for crimes they didn’t commit, like homicide or outright murder. Earlier this month, a federal judge reminded us that the likelihood these officers ...

Link to: The Supreme Court Keeps Embracing Convenient Lies to Excuse Rank Bigotry ...

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 ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority issued an order that allows federal immigration agents in Los Angeles to resume arresting Latino people en masse simply because they are Latino. The ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nomination hearing for, among others, Whitney Hermandorfer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Nearly 35 years ago, the Senate voted 58-42 to deny Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. Bork, a conservative judge and academic whose work was instrumental to the development of constitutional ...