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

Last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the County of Washtenaw, Michigan, and several of its local officials, accusing them of illegally interfering with federal immigration law.

One of the most persistent tropes in the legal profession is that judges, by virtue of being judges, are magically capable of deciding cases according to the law and the law alone. When asked during ...

With few judicial vacancies to fill, President Donald Trump is using each opportunity to pack the courts with proven loyalists. His recent appellate picks—Benjamin Flowers, Matthew Schwartz, and ...

For a full year, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been trying to hold the Trump administration accountable for violating a court order that prohibited the government from arbitrarily sending ...

The First Amendment is a blunt tool. Crafted by the Supreme Court intentionally to overprotect, the law of free speech does so by erring on the side of a sort of formalistic inanity. Federal judges ...

Police continue to arrest women who have abortions for crimes they didn’t commit, like homicide or outright murder. Earlier this month, a federal judge reminded us that the likelihood these officers ...

Link to: The Supreme Court Keeps Embracing Convenient Lies to Excuse Rank Bigotry ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a two-paragraph order that allows the Trump administration to move forward with gutting some two dozen federal agencies, moving ever closer to realizing the ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...