The fastest way to lose your job as a Trump-adjacent lawyer is to acknowledge facts he doesn’t like to hear about.

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 ...

On Thursday, ProPublica published an explosive investigative report into the rise of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a right-wing crusader who believes God called ...

Generally, a common-law principle known as sovereign immunity prevents the federal government from being sued, unless the government chooses to waive that privilege. In 1946, Congress laid out a few ...

The technical questions in Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court will decide sometime next year, sound mostly like gibberish to people who are not already intimately familiar with several ...

On Wednesday, November 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a pair of cases about President Donald Trump’s unilateral imposition of sweeping tariffs on dozens of “countries” he claims are a ...

On Thursday, Alabama executed Anthony Boyd, a 54-year-old Black man whom the state claims was involved in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of Gregory Huguley. Prosecutors had no physical evidence ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, two consolidated cases that aim to kill off the remnants of the Voting Rights Act—and, with it, the ability ...

On Monday, a divided federal appeals court lifted an order which had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. Trump has sought to use the ...