The first member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to back a Trump nominee does so for the most embarrassing reason imaginable.

Judges and justices are more powerful today than the framers ever intended. Congress can do something about it.

The Ninth Circuit has never had a public defender among the ranks of its judges. It's past time for President Biden to fix that.

Chief Standing Bear’s speech nearly 150 years ago showed the power of the human stories that the legal system often obscures.

On Monday, in an unsigned, one-paragraph order, the Supreme Court’s six conservatives allowed President Donald Trump to functionally dismantle the Department of Education. The Court’s shadow docket ...

The justices’ decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services is the culmination of a decades-long conservative push to hollow out federal civil rights laws.

Kamala Harris and Cory Booker each took moments to celebrate at the final Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation vote.

The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

Some of Project 2025’s most unhinged policy positions arise directly out of the Republican Supreme Court justices’ recent handiwork.

The Border Patrol's 100-mile zone enables federal immigrant agents to skirt the Fourth Amendment's requirements with impunity.

A former public defender's employment discrimination case highlights gaps in protections that the Judiciary Accountability Act would address.