The fastest way to lose your job as a Trump-adjacent lawyer is to acknowledge facts he doesn’t like to hear about.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, two consolidated cases that aim to kill off the remnants of the Voting Rights Act—and, with it, the ability ...
On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...
The Supreme Court begins its new term next week, and the first blockbuster case the justices will consider is about “conversion therapy,” a dangerous pseudoscience that aims to change a person’s ...
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 handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A ...
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 ...