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.

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.

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

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, six conservative Christian justices decided that the First Amendment gives conservative Christian parents veto power over public school curriculum they don’t like.

The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to ...

The Court's opinion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is awful not only for Medicaid patients, but also for millions of other people whose legal rights just got less safe.

If this scheme feels familiar, it’s because the Supreme Court blessed one just like it a few days ago. Federal law requires states to ensure that Medicaid patients may obtain services from “any ...