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 ...

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

On January 20, 2025—his first day back in the White House—President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to override the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Almost four years have passed since the Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Today, 13 states enforce total abortion bans, and ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case about the Republican Party’s latest attempt to disenfranchise American voters. “Election Day” is ...

Link to: The Trump White House Is Very Upset About States That Won’t Do Its Dirty Work ...

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 ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissenting opinion yesterday that did not mince words about the Supreme Court’s eager facilitation of the Trump administration’s discriminatory agenda. It was ...

At first, school officials allowed parents to opt their children out of lessons involving these books. But after this proved to be a logistical nightmare in Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest ...

In 1946, Congress quietly passed a statute giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance” from the border. Shortly thereafter, ...

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 Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...