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

The role of a federal judge is now less about applying precedent than it is predicting which precedent the Court will ...

Three months ago, the president tried to fire three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. A tiny problem with his legal theory is that they don’t work for him.

The Johns Hopkins lawsuit show how conservatives are transforming principles of equal protection into tools for preserving racial hierarchy.

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 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 ...