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 ...

The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

The Court's opinion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is awful not only for Medicaid patients, but also for millions of other people whose legal rights just got less safe.

The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Skrmetti that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution is no obstacle to laws that deny lifesaving medical care to transgender children. In 2023 ...

Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nomination hearing for, among others, Whitney Hermandorfer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of state-level bans on assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines. One appeal, Snope v. Brown, ...

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 ...

James Ho knows that getting on the Supreme Court shortlist is a matter of showing that you will be loyal to the president above all else.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in Trump v. CASA, a case related to President Donald Trump’s executive order claiming to limit the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship ...