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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly ...

At first, school officials allowed parents to opt their children out of lessons involving these books. But after this proved to be a logistical nightmare in Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is fed up with her job. “I live in frustration,” Sotomayor told the audience at a lecture at Berkeley Law on Monday—possibly the most relatable thing a Supreme Court Justice ...