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The federal district courts have been standing up to Donald Trump’s illegal executive actions, blocking or pausing multiple orders from the denial...
Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the government couldn’t block minors from accessing pornography by requiring websites to verify...
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly is considering declaring a national economic emergency to give him legal cover to impose tariffs. Wait, you...
Elon Musk is in a free-speech fight over his decision to demonetize the content of some far-right MAGA critics who disagreed with his immigration...
Donald Trump loves to sue people for defamation to scare them out of making negative statements about him. In a settlement made public Saturday,...
In 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in private and public university admissions. Now a federal district court has upheld...
The plans for the Department of Government Efficiency laid out by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are so riddled with legal problems that a law...
No government action implicates raw emotion more than a president pardoning a family member. Seen from a human perspective, Joe Biden’s decision to...
Donald Trump has been the president-elect for only two weeks, but he is already pushing to see how much deference he can command from the other...
Since Bush v. Gore, a specter has loomed over our presidential elections: the possibility that a close election could be decided by the Supreme...
Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS is utterly meritless. On one level, it’s a last-ditch political stunt from a man who has already been involved...
Both Donald Trump and the pro-Palestinian Democratic left would like to make support for Israel into a partisan issue. If either is successful, the...
Last week, California prohibited its private colleges from using an applicant’s legacy status — that is, whether other family members attended the...
Should so-called ghost guns — assembled at home from kits in as little as 20 minutes — be counted as guns for purposes of federal law? If you have...
Oklahoma’s new law mandating Bible instruction in public schools violates the US Constitution and courts should strike it down. In the meantime,...
The arrest in France of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has brought into sharp focus one of the major conflicts of our age. On one hand, we...
Illinois can’t ban the concealed carry of licensed handguns on Chicago’s famous L — short for “elevated trains” — according to a new ruling by a...
Jack Smith is calling the Supreme Court’s bluff. In the wake of the court’s controversial decision earlier this summer granting Donald Trump...
As the fall semester dawns — or looms, depending on your perspective — college deans are preparing to deal with more campus protests against the...
Elon Musk’s lawyers have filed two lawsuits on behalf of X (formerly Twitter) in a federal district court in Texas. As of 2023, the judge in that...
In a major development in the struggle to control mass shootings, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld Maryland’s assault...
If you want to understand what’s happened to voting rights in the US over the past decade, just take a look at the recent ruling by the US Court of...
Does a state have the power to ban the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle owned by millions of Americans, favored by mass shooters, and recently used in the...
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced his Supreme Court reform package in 1937, he had just won reelection with more than 60% of the...
JD Vance’s Yale Law School pedigree came up at least a dozen times at the Republican National Convention. His degree from the institution gives the...
You don’t need a legal expert to tell you that Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision striking down the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to...