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 ...

In the early hours of September 30, nearly 300 masked ICE agents descended upon an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, pouring out of the backs of U-Haul vans on the street ...

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to ...

Last week, the Washington Supreme Court rejected a local corporation’s attempt to sue the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians for legal ownership of two acres of land. The disputed tract, which the Tribe ...

But the Republican justices on the Court do not like the existing law. And now, they are rehearing the cases so they can have ...

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the ...

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 ...

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 Friday, September 19, a federal district judge in Florida struck President Donald Trump’s complaint in his $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, four Times reporters, and ...

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 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 ...