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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Traditionally, when asked in public settings to talk about how they do their jobs, Supreme Court justices have spent a lot of time extolling the virtues of stare decisis—the principle that judges ...

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 ...

On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, the latest gambit by right-wing activists at the Alliance Defending Freedom to repurpose the First Amendment as a weapon ...