John Bursch has a problem on his hands, and it seems he believes a dishonest little blog post directed at Chief Justice John Roberts can help him out of a bind. Last week, Bursch, the senior counsel ...

On Monday night, the Republican men on the Supreme Court voted to lift a lower court order that had temporarily blocked the Trump administration from summarily shipping Venezuelan migrants to a ...

On Friday, two Republican judges on a North Carolina appeals court nullified thousands of votes in the state’s recent supreme court election—a transparent ploy to overturn fellow Republican appeals ...

On Tuesday, Susan Crawford won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, handily defeating her Republican-backed, Elon Musk-boosted opponent, Brad Schimel. For all the anticipation ...

Of the 16 people executed by the federal government since it reinstated the death penalty in 1988, all but three were killed during President Donald Trump’s first term. Over half of those ...

Stephen Miller is a longtime anti-immigrant activist who has since parlayed his white nationalism into multiple senior roles in the White House. As President Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff and ...

Sometime in the next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a distressingly open legal question: whether Constitution allows the government to disappear you off the street and ship you to a foreign ...

As Elon Musk attacks the federal workforce, President Donald Trump has taken aim at officials who protect workers—federal and otherwise. In the first month of his administration, Trump attempted to ...

If you are a Supreme Court justice attending a State of the Union address, the rules of engagement are pretty simple: Your job, no matter what the president says or does, is to sit quietly and ...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump fired Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, the two Democratic appointees to the five-member Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumers from abuses of ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that could further limit Black people’s access to the political process.

On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court press office issued a rare public statement from Chief Justice John Roberts himself. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not ...