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

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 ...

Priscilla Villarreal probably did not think twice about sending the texts that got her arrested, handcuffed, and perp-walked through a room full of jubilant, laughing cops. After all, Villarreal, a ...

In March 2023, federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent Samuel Landis was surveilling a suspected drug courier in Salem, Oregon, when he blew through a stop sign and struck and killed a cyclist, ...

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 ...

Lebene Konan, a realtor and landlord in Euless, Texas, alleges that United States Postal Service employees have subjected her to a yearslong campaign of racial harassment. In a federal lawsuit she ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court released its first decisions of the term that began back in October. The Court typically saves its most divisive rulings for the end of its term, in June or July, ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in Trump v. Cook, a case about President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Dr. Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The Federal ...

In October 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bostock v. Clayton County, a case about whether a federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination based on “sex” extends to ...

Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district ...

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 ...

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 ...