But on Monday, NPR revealed that the initiative had an enthusiastic cheerleader at an even earlier stage in its development: ...

A federal district judge in Chicago published a 233-page opinion and order on Thursday, November 20, following an oral ruling from the bench two weeks earlier, that required the Trump administration ...

A divided panel of three federal judges issued a preliminary order on Tuesday blocking Texas’s electoral map, which Texas Republican lawmakers adopted in August at the behest of the Trump ...

The Trump administration published a proposed rule on Monday that would redefine the term “waters of the United States” as Congress used it in the Clean Water Act. The change would revoke the federal ...

On Thursday, a federal district judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s mass cancellation of grants related to “diversity” to move forward, rejecting the Trump administration ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of someone you’d probably forgotten about until right now: Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who became a national news story in 2015 ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed at 10 AM today as punishment for a murder he did not commit. At 9:59, Oklahoma ...

Interesting to which issues prompt judges to get worked up about other judges deciding cases in line with their personal ...

Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...

In 1946, Congress quietly passed a statute giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance” from the border. Shortly thereafter, ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made waves earlier this month when she used her perch to offer a vision of racial equality that stands at odds with how the Supreme Court often treats matters of race.