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

Conservative activists have spent years pushing a fringe legal theory that could ban abortion nationwide. A pair of newly appointed White House lawyers could do exactly that.

Federal judges keep temporarily blocking Trump policies from taking effect. The Court’s six-justice conservative supermajority keeps riding gallantly to his rescue.

Earlier this week, all fifteen federal district judges in Maryland received a summons in a civil lawsuit: The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state’s entire federal district court in ...

For transgender teachers in Florida, writing their names on the blackboard can be a fireable offense.

Proposed legislation would ensure that the federal agency that provides security to judges answers to judges, not to Donald Trump.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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