Lawyers are used to negotiating artful resolutions of high-stakes legal disputes. Trump is used to his adversaries’ ...

David Souter, whom President George H.W. Bush appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990, and who spent the remainder of his 19-year tenure making conservatives insane with rage, died at his home in New ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a one-page order in United States v. Shilling, an ongoing legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S.

On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts, author of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision declaring that presidents can do crimes sometimes, told a 600-person audience that one of the primary ...

Since Trump won reelection in November, only 18 judges have created new vacancies for him to fill. The vast majority—16 of 18—have been district judges, and13 of those 16 were appointed by Republican ...

California’s February 2025 bar exam was, in technical terms, a hot-ass mess. Nearly 60 percent of post-exam survey respondents reported that the exam software froze, crashed, or otherwise became ...

The basis of the administration’s actions at both DOJ and the Department of Agriculture is a tortured reading of Title IX, a federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination in any education-related ...

The federal government and conservative news outlets are conducting a smear campaign against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration kidnapped and imprisoned in El Salvador, ...

Coverage of the Trump administration’s attacks on the legal profession tend to focus on how different law firms have reacted to the many executive orders targeting them. A more pernicious strategy has ...

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 ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...