The fastest way to lose your job as a Trump-adjacent lawyer is to acknowledge facts he doesn’t like to hear about.

Generally, a common-law principle known as sovereign immunity prevents the federal government from being sued, unless the government chooses to waive that privilege. In 1946, Congress laid out a few ...

On Thursday, Alabama executed Anthony Boyd, a 54-year-old Black man whom the state claims was involved in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of Gregory Huguley. Prosecutors had no physical evidence ...

On Wednesday, November 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a pair of cases about President Donald Trump’s unilateral imposition of sweeping tariffs on dozens of “countries” he claims are a ...

Since stepping down from the Supreme Court in 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy has largely stayed out of the public eye—that is, until the publicity cycle for his new memoir, Life, Law & Liberty, kicked ...

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 ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious ...

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 ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority issued an order that allows federal immigration agents in Los Angeles to resume arresting Latino people en masse simply because they are Latino. The ...

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...