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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on pretty much everything imported into the United States. Among other things, the...
Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic should be one of the easiest cases the Supreme Court will decide this year. A federal law requires every...
In mid-March, President Donald Trump invoked an almost-never-used federal law, claiming that it gives him the power to deport many immigrants at will...
There wasn’t a lot of suspense going into Monday’s Supreme Court argument in Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission....
All nine of the Supreme Court justices are lawyers. All of them have friends and law school classmates in private practice. All of them sit at the...
The Supreme Court spent Wednesday morning giving very serious consideration to a case that no one should take seriously. FCC v. Consumers’...
An exceedingly rare event occurred on Wednesday — the Supreme Court upheld a federal gun regulation, with four of the Court’s Republicans in the...
Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is one of the most straightforward cases the Supreme Court will hear this year. It involves a federal law...
The Supreme Court sent a rather unfortunate message during Monday’s argument in a racial gerrymandering dispute called Louisiana v. Callais: Do not...
If you know the name of a case the Supreme Court will hear on March 31, Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, you can...
There are many lawsuits challenging allegedly illegal actions by the Trump administration — 132 of them as of March 21, according to the legal news...
The conservative philosopher GK Chesterton is known for a parable about two lawmakers who encounter a fence. One, brash and overeager, announces that...
Federal law seeks to make communications technology like telephones and the internet, in the words of one older statute, “available, so far as...
Louisiana v. Callais, a case about whether Louisiana’s congressional maps are an illegal racial gerrymander, should be one of the easiest cases the...
The question of what happens if the Trump administration openly defies a federal court order has hung over the United States since President Donald...
A Vox reader asks: If we have “separation of church and state,” why do we give religious schools tax exemption? How come religious schools get...
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to a Colorado law preventing most mental health professionals...
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court handed down a very brief order that effectively requires the government to pay foreign aid contractors as much...
The nation of Mexico’s lawsuit against several major US gun manufacturers, known as Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, was cursed...
On Wednesday night, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a lower court order, which would have required the Trump administration to make...
The proper term for a Supreme Court session where the justices hear verbal presentations by lawyers is an “oral argument,” but Wednesday’s...
On March 5, the Supreme Court will hear a case that may involve one of the most toxic examples of NIMBYism in American history. The issue at the heart...
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Richard Glossip, a man sentenced to die under extraordinarily dubious circumstances, must receive a new...
It’s hard to imagine a lawsuit that faces more challenging political headwinds than Mexico’s case against US gun companies in Smith & Wesson...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear its first employment discrimination case since President Donald Trump took power and began a fairly...
Hampton Dellinger, a federal official who President Donald Trump attempted to fire earlier this month, seems very likely to lose a lawsuit challenging...
On Thursday, a group of current or former workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the foreign aid agency that the Trump...
We’re less than two months into the second Trump administration, but one thing is clear: President Donald Trump would very much like to be unbound...
As of this writing, there are at least 45 lawsuits pending against President Donald Trump and his subordinates. They range from challenges to...
We seem to be in the middle of 16 constitutional crises at once. President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to kill an entire provision of the...
President Donald Trump recently attempted to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its former chair. This...
On Friday afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to halt a simply enormous amount of...
Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable. What’s uncertain is whether the Supreme...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between church and state, at least...
On Monday, his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a wave of executive orders. Some are ridiculous, such as an order purporting...
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. On Monday, just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden announced...
On Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law that effectively bans the social media app TikTok in the United States, unless the...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard the first major First Amendment case involving pornography — or, for that matter, sexual speech of any kind...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Becerra v. Braidwood Management, the latest in a long line of lawsuits seeking to undermine...
On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will decide if the popular social media app TikTok can still exist in the United...
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday...
On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to halt the criminal proceeding against him in New York state court. Trump was...
In what is likely to be one of her final actions as the federal government’s top Supreme Court litigator, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar...
Imagine that the government tried to force Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire and owner of the Washington Post, to sell that newspaper due to...
If you’ve studied First Amendment law, it’s impossible not to experience déjà vu while reading the briefs in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a...
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates on Monday, meaning that 37 men who were slated to be executed...
Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which the Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear, is not a difficult case. The question in...
The Supreme Court issued an unusual order on Wednesday morning, announcing it will hear a case deciding the fate of TikTok on a fast-tracked...
One of the Supreme Court’s very first actions after Republicans gained a 6-3 supermajority on its bench was a revolutionary decision expanding...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will get involved in a longstanding dispute between the families of Americans killed in Israel and...