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Are therapists protected by the First Amendment during talk therapy sessions with their clients? And are these free speech protections so robust that...
On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down an order that could completely upend the balance of power between Congress and President Donald Trump. The...
Three issues dominate the Supreme Court term that begins next week, based on the cases the justices have agreed to hear so far. Realistically,...
About two decades ago, Justice Antonin Scalia went on a duck hunting trip with then-Vice President Dick Cheney. This trip became an issue because the...
On Thursday night, the Justice Department revealed an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, that lays out vague allegations that Comey...
In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday,...
A long-simmering showdown over whether President Donald Trump may seize control over the Federal Reserve appears to be entering its endgame. It is...
Last month, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dropped an inflammatory allegation on most of her colleagues. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down...
The Trump administration formally asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday evening to decide whether President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariff...
The six Republican justices have largely behaved as lickspittles to the leader of their political party. These are, after all, the same GOP political...
Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration’s decision to cancel numerous...
Spectrum WT v. Wendler is one of the easiest First Amendment cases the federal courts heard this year — or in any other year. The question is...
Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down a temporary order placing some restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration...
The Supreme Court handed down a very brief order on Thursday, which allows a Mississippi law restricting children’s access to social media to remain...
On Monday, President Donald Trump released an executive order invoking a rarely used federal law that allows him to temporarily seize control over...
A new Gallup poll finds public approval of the Supreme Court falling below 40 percent for the first time in the poll’s history. The poll aligns with...
Let’s give credit where it is due. The current Supreme Court has a decent record on free speech issues. There have been some worrisome moves, such...
One of the biggest mysteries that has emerged from the Trump-era Supreme Court is the 2023 decision in Allen v. Milligan. In Milligan, two of the...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court’s recent practice of handing victories to President Donald Trump without explaining those...
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump called for Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to eliminate what Trump called the “‘Blue...
Last month, two Republican federal appeals court judges effectively abolished the law banning race discrimination in elections in seven states. On...
About four months ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Alina Habba, one of Trump’s personal lawyers, as the top federal prosecutor in New...
Three very important tariff-related stories loom over the US economy this month. The first is that, after a few weeks of relative quiet, President...
Emil Bove is one of President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyers. He’s now a senior Justice Department official — and he’s widely...
In mid-May, two Republicans on a federal appeals court declared that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the landmark law that a Senate report once...
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass...
There are two big winners in the Supreme Court’s most recent term. One is social and religious conservatives. In the last two days of its term,...
The Supreme Court upheld a Texas anti-pornography law on Friday that is nearly identical to a federal law it struck down more than two decades...
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that parents with religious objections to books with LGBTQ characters must be allowed to opt their children out of...
On Friday, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in Trump v. CASA, a case challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to strip many...
Federal law says that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” from a state Medicaid program may obtain that care “from any institution,...
Last week, federal agents arrested Brad Lander, a Democrat running for mayor of New York City and the city’s incumbent comptroller, after Lander...
In a short, one-paragraph order, the Republican justices ruled on Monday evening that President Donald Trump may effectively nullify a federal law and...
It was obvious, if you listened to the Supreme Court’s oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti last December, that the Court would vote — most...
In late May, a federal court handed down an order pausing President Donald Trump’s plans to fire a simply astonishing amount of federal workers. As...
Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in...
On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order permitting the Department of Government Efficiency, the enigmatic White House entity that...
The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion on Thursday that shuts down a lawsuit brought by the nation of Mexico against US gun companies. In...
In 2018, shortly before Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation shifted the Supreme Court drastically to the right, Democratic Justice Elena Kagan...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down a raft of mostly unanimous opinions, three of which reached a conservative outcome despite the fact that...
Federal civil servants are supposed to enjoy robust protections against being fired or demoted for political reasons. But President Donald Trump has...
This story was originally published by Vox.com, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court handed down an...
The Supreme Court handed down a very brief order on Friday, which effectively permits the Trump administration to strip half a million immigrants of...
On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump publicly split with the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative lawyers’ group that he relied on...
The Supreme Court handed down an opinion on Thursday that reads like it was written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, the authors of an influential...
A federal court ruled on Wednesday evening that the massive tariffs President Donald Trump imposed shortly after beginning his second term are...
On Thursday evening, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order, which temporarily permits President Donald Trump to fire two federal officials who,...
Surprise! The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it is unable to decide a case asking it to force states to fund religious charter schools. The...
There are no heroes in Libby v. Fecteau, a decision about an anti-trans lawmaker that the Supreme Court handed down on Tuesday. With only two justices...
The most closely watched news out of the Supreme Court on Thursday was the argument in Trump v. CASA, a case asking whether President Donald Trump has...