The first member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to back a Trump nominee does so for the most embarrassing reason imaginable.

The role of a federal judge is now less about applying precedent than it is predicting which precedent the Court will ...

Judges and justices are more powerful today than the framers ever intended. Congress can do something about it.

Three months ago, the president tried to fire three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. A tiny problem with his legal theory is that they don’t work for him.

The Ninth Circuit has never had a public defender among the ranks of its judges. It's past time for President Biden to fix that.

The Johns Hopkins lawsuit show how conservatives are transforming principles of equal protection into tools for preserving racial hierarchy.

Chief Standing Bear’s speech nearly 150 years ago showed the power of the human stories that the legal system often obscures.

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 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.

This term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her dissents to reveal an important truth about the Supreme Court.

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 ...