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 ...

This term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her dissents to reveal an important truth about the Supreme Court.

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 White House keeps asking for permission to break the law. In cases like DHS v DVD, the justices keep giving it.

The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Skrmetti that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution is no obstacle to laws that deny lifesaving medical care to transgender children. In 2023 ...

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.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of state-level bans on assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines. One appeal, Snope v. Brown, ...

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...