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On May 15, the Supreme Court will hear three cases — consolidated under the name Trump v. CASA — which concern his unconstitutional attempt to...
On Tuesday, May 13, a three-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade will hear a lawsuit asking it to strike down President Donald Trump’s...
Editor’s note, May 6: The Supreme Court issued a brief order temporarily blocking a lower court’s decision, which had prevented President Donald...
The Supreme Court has been asked to decide a case that combines two of the most charged issues in the US at the moment: trans participation in sports,...
During an oral argument on Wednesday, the Supreme Court appeared all but certain to divide along party lines in a case that seeks to fundamentally...
Eight years ago, at the dawn of the first Trump presidency, the White House was the locus of an ambitious project to weaken the president. Justice...
Almost immediately after he began his second term, President Donald Trump ordered the military to ban transgender people from serving in the US...
Three years ago, Montgomery County, Maryland, approved several books with LGBTQ characters for use in public school classrooms. Not much else is known...
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could lead health insurance plans to offer narrower coverage. The case, known as...
Shortly after midnight early Saturday morning, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order forbidding the Trump administration from removing a group...
Top officials within the Justice Department, the State Department, and possibly even the White House may be barrelling toward a criminal conviction...
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority certainly seems eager to make taxpayers fund religious education. Over the past few decades, the Court has...
Trump v. Wilcox, a case now pending on the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” asks whether several federal agencies that are supposed to enjoy a...
Remember Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law? The unconstitutionally vague law imposed such unclear restrictions on teachers who speak about...
On Friday, four Republican members of the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order attempting to disenfranchise more than 5,000 of the state’s...
If you paid any attention at all to US politics in the 2010s, you’ll remember the seemingly endless stream of lawsuits seeking to undermine, or even...
The facts underlying Noem v. Abrego Garcia are shocking, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants. The Supreme...
The facts underlying Noem v. Abrego Garcia are shocking, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants. The Supreme...
On Monday night, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision tossing out a closely watched district court decision, which blocked President Donald...
On Thursday, one day after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, what appears to be the first lawsuit challenging those tariffs was...
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...