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 ...

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

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 ...

Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court officially began its new term. If you had no idea the Court’s term ever ended, that’s understandable: The Trump administration peppered the Court with emergency petitions ...

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 ...

Every season seems to bring us another unnecessary book from a Supreme Court justice, and this fall’s entrant is Amy Coney Barrett’s Listening to the Law. Given that the book reportedly garnered her a ...

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 ...