The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case about the Republican Party’s ...
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 ...
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A ...
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 ...
In 1946, Congress quietly passed a statute giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance” from the border. Shortly thereafter, ...
If you graduate from law school and go work for a law firm, and you’re bullied, sexually harassed, or retaliated against by your employer, your first move is probably filing a complaint with human ...
In the last three months, only one judge has created a new vacancy: Montana District Judge Susan Watters, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013, announced that she will take senior status in ...
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in FDA v. Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine that kicked the conservative legal movement’s latest attack on abortion out of court. Writing for a ...
The federal judiciary is out of control. Far-right judges have decided they are above the law, using their lifetime positions not to advance the well-being of the country, but to increase their ...
The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...