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The Supreme Court will hear a case later this month that could make life drastically worse for homeless Americans. It also challenges one of the most...
The Supreme Court spent about an hour and a half on Tuesday morning arguing over whether to make it much harder for the Justice Department to...
The Supreme Court handed down a strange set of opinions on Monday evening, which accompanied a decision that largely reinstates Idaho’s ban on...
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe . The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court...
Moyle v. United States should have been a very easy case. A federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), requires nearly all...
A federal court is picking an unusual fight with one of the federal judiciary’s governing bodies — one with implications for literally all aspects...
The Supreme Court appeared listless, even bored, during Tuesday’s oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine , the case asking the...
According to the Justice Department, Joseph Fischer texted his boss before the January 6 insurrection to tell him that he might need to post bail. The...
For more than a year, a specter named Matthew Kacsmaryk has loomed over abortion access in the United States. Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for Christian...
The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration law to go into effect. The case is known...
There are several recent signs that the federal judiciary’s center right is losing patience with its far right. Last week, a policymaking body...
The Supreme Court will allow a public Texas university’s unconstitutional ban on drag shows to remain in effect, in a decision announced Friday. ...
Plaintiffs hoping to reshape federal or state policies will no longer be allowed to choose which judge will hear their case, at least in federal...
For well more than a century, the federal government has enjoyed near exclusive authority over immigration policy, while states have largely been...
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Monday, March 18, that are often referred to as “jawboning” cases — that is, cases where the government...
When the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade , it swore up and down that its decision didn’t necessarily have any implications for other rights....
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a sweeping victory for Donald Trump — his second in less than a week, after the court placed Trump’s...
The Supreme Court has ordered the most important of former President Donald Trump’s four criminal trials to be put on hold indefinitely. It’s an...
Measured by how many bills he successfully ushered into law, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who announced Wednesday that he will step...
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Trump’s DC criminal trial, the one concerning his attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election, must be...
“Intuitively, I am entirely sympathetic to your argument,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett told Brian Fletcher, the Justice Department lawyer defending...
The Supreme Court appears inclined to reinstate Texas and Florida laws seizing control of much of the internet — both of which are currently blocked...
The moment the US Supreme Court released its decision overruling Roe v. Wade , pretty much everyone who closely follows constitutional law wondered...
The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will not hear Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board , a lawsuit attacking a school...
On February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively make it legal for civilians to own automatic weapons capable of firing as...
In mid-2021, about a year before he began his longstanding feud with the biggest employer in his state, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis...
The Supreme Court is about to have two Trump-sized problems to deal with. Last Thursday, the justices heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson , the...
Two things were obvious Thursday morning in the Supreme Court, where the justices pondered whether former President Donald Trump is disqualified from...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson , the case asking whether former President Donald Trump’s role in the...
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court handed down two widely anticipated documents rejecting a particularly unpersuasive legal argument by former...
Well, the Supreme Court fight over our insurrectionist former president is finally upon us. On Thursday, the Court will hear oral arguments in Trump...
Last June, the Supreme Court handed down a sweeping decision abolishing race-conscious admissions programs at nearly every college and university in...
Last Monday, the Supreme Court made its first foray into a longstanding conflict over who is in charge of the United States-Mexico border: the United...
A renegade federal appeals court — one dominated by MAGA-aligned judges who routinely read the law in ways that even the current, very conservative...
One of the most well-settled questions in US constitutional law is that duly enacted federal laws overcome all state laws that conflict with them, and...
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Glossip v. Oklahoma , a long-simmering death penalty case where the state’s Republican...
Four justices appeared absolutely determined, on Wednesday, to overrule one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in the Court’s entire...
For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court unexpectedly turned away a case asking it to diminish the rights of young transgender Americans...
On the surface, the issues presented by Devillier v. Texas — a Supreme Court case brought by Texas landowners who claim the state should...
On January 17, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce —...
The Supreme Court handed down two significant orders on Friday evening. The first announces that the Court will hear a case asking whether former...
On Tuesday, a notoriously right-wing federal appeals court attempted to rewrite a federal law that, among other things, requires most US hospitals to...
Shortly before Christmas, the Colorado Supreme Court dropped a bombshell opinion ruling that former President Donald Trump must be removed from the...
The Supreme Court is now almost certain to hear a case about whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to run for president again, and no one...
In 1970, then-President Richard Nixon briefly authorized an illegal plan to spy on left-wing activists within the United States. His defense is rarely...
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will give a full hearing to a long-simmering dispute over whether far-right federal courts may ban...
On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, a woman who says she is “at high risk for severe complications threatening her...
In an unexpected move, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear a lawsuit challenging Washington state’s restrictions on an...
The Supreme Court spent much of Tuesday morning beating up Andrew Grossman, a lawyer asking the justices to revive a long-defunct limit on...