In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith, a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had ...

Three weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, federal courts have already played an important role in attempting to curb the most flagrantly illegal of the new administration’s actions. Lower ...

In the fall of 2023, Richard Snyder was summoned for jury duty at the Rensselaer County Supreme Court in Troy, New York. Not everyone who is summoned for jury duty makes it on a jury, though; instead, ...

This week, The Washington Post published a list of “50 People Shaping Our Society in 2025” that included Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell, whom it described as “part cultural conservative, part ...

On January 27, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies with a subject line reading, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

Shortly after taking the oath of office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship—this country’s 157-year-old tradition of conferring ...

One of President Joe Biden’s earliest campaign pledges was to remake the federal bench to better reflect the diversity of the country it serves. Whatever else you want to say about the Biden ...

Last month, Mitch McConnell ended his record-setting 18-year reign as the Republican Party’s leader in the Senate. McConnell, 82, will continue to serve until his term ends in 2027, but “from a ...

On September 6, 2023, the Senate confirmed Gwynne Wilcox for a second five-year term on the National Labor Relations Board, the independent federal agency charged with protecting and enforcing workers ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is more than an ineffectual attempt to change the law or redefine the identity of the nation. It represents a calculated ...

Guantánamo Bay has been synonymous with indefinite detention and torture for decades. The Migrant Operations Center is a small facility where the government warehouses asylum seekers and refugees ...