The role of a federal judge is now less about applying precedent than it is predicting which precedent the Court will ...

Three months ago, the president tried to fire three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. A tiny problem with his legal theory is that they don’t work for him.

The first member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to back a Trump nominee does so for the most embarrassing reason imaginable.

The Johns Hopkins lawsuit show how conservatives are transforming principles of equal protection into tools for preserving racial hierarchy.

Judges and justices are more powerful today than the framers ever intended. Congress can do something about it.

Chief Standing Bear’s speech nearly 150 years ago showed the power of the human stories that the legal system often obscures.

The justices’ decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services is the culmination of a decades-long conservative push to hollow out federal civil rights laws.

On Monday, in an unsigned, one-paragraph order, the Supreme Court’s six conservatives allowed President Donald Trump to functionally dismantle the Department of Education. The Court’s shadow docket ...

Earlier this week, all fifteen federal district judges in Maryland received a summons in a civil lawsuit: The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state’s entire federal district court in ...

This term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her dissents to reveal an important truth about the Supreme Court.

Federal judges keep temporarily blocking Trump policies from taking effect. The Court’s six-justice conservative supermajority keeps riding gallantly to his rescue.