The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to ...

From the “judges” deciding cases to the “rules” of evidence, every aspect of immigration court is stacked against the people ...

After a disastrous showing in the November 2025 elections and under pressure from President Donald Trump, many Republican-controlled legislatures are looking to (further) gerrymander their states ...

With the Senate adjourned until 2026, the book is closed on President Donald Trump’s first-year judicial appointments. How much damage did he do this time around? In my view, a lot—his 26 appointees ...

Deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition, since 2021 ...

Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...

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 ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissenting opinion yesterday that did not mince words about the Supreme Court’s eager facilitation of the Trump administration’s discriminatory agenda. It was ...

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 ...

In 1965, Congress created Medicaid, a nationwide program that provides health insurance to qualifying low-income families. In doing so, Congress showed some recognition that poor people have just as ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious ...

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 ...