The conservatives on the Court often posture as great defenders of religious rights. In reality, they only care about the ...

On Monday, in a pair of decisions written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court effectively ruled that President Donald Trump can fire the heads of purportedly independent federal agencies ...

Months before the 2020 election, as tens of millions of people prepared to vote by mail in the midst of a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump was already laying the groundwork for challenging the ...

A razor-thin majority of the Supreme Court confirmed today that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says: “All persons” born in the United States and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are ...

In a pair of cases decided on Tuesday, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court restricted the ability of transgender young people to participate in school sports with their peers. The people who ...

Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court’s recent party-line decision destroying what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is riddled with half-truths and whole lies. Writing for the six-justice ...

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 issued a two-paragraph order that allows the Trump administration to move forward with gutting some two dozen federal agencies, moving ever closer to realizing the ...

For the past several weeks, hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a labor and hunger strike. Participants in the strike are ...

Barely halfway through oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court case about President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, it ...

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 ...