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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Since stepping down from the Supreme Court in 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy has largely stayed out of the public eye—that is, until the publicity cycle for his new memoir, Life, Law & Liberty, kicked ...

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 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 ...

Nina Totenberg, the longtime NPR legal affairs correspondent, has a defiant message for her haters in her new book Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships. Despite persistent ...

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 Friday, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Trump v. CASA, the case about President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to rescind the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of birthright ...