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

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.

Kamala Harris and Cory Booker each took moments to celebrate at the final Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation vote.

The Trump administration has nixed a 2023 settlement that was building modern sanitation infrastructure in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama.

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 ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is stacked with far-right Trump goons, has gone completely off the rails lately.

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 ...

Why did Gorsuch claim that ‘Pride Puppy’, an alphabet book about a lost dog, introduces kids to bondage and sex workers? Let’s find out!

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 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 ...

Oral argument in Glacier Northwest highlighted the shortcomings of a Supreme Court with no justices with union-side labor law experience.