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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 Court....
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 want...
Illinois can’t ban the concealed carry of licensed handguns on Chicago’s famous L — short for “elevated trains” — according to a new...
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...
A new law in Louisiana requires every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments. Similar laws are under consideration in Texas and Utah,...
“All Gaul is divided into three parts,” Julius Caesar famously wrote. The same is now clearly true of the Supreme Court. And like Gaul before...
In a sweeping decision that constitutionalizes the modern reality of the imperial presidency, the US Supreme Court has established near-total criminal...
In a blockbuster decision, the US Supreme Court has held for the first time that social media platforms, just like newspapers, have First Amendment...
In a defeat for advocates of the unhoused, the US Supreme Court has rejected the argument that it is cruel and unusual punishment to outlaw sleeping...
The US Supreme Court has overruled the Chevron decision, a basic building block of administrative law, thereby striking a blow against the power and...
In a surprising twist to America’s ongoing opioid crisis, the Supreme Court has thrown out a legal settlement that would have paid billions of...
For the second time in two years, an abortion-related decision from the Supreme Court has appeared before its due date. Unlike the Dobbs decision...
In a careful, precise opinion, the US Supreme Court has rejected a demand that it prohibit the executive branch from urging social media companies to...
Almost 20 years after Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks, his legal saga appears to be over with a guilty plea to a single charge of disseminating...
Two years later, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is still sending aftershocks through the legal system. Apart from the abortion cases at the Supreme...
Gun rights are not unlimited according to an 8-1 Supreme Court decision that draws back from the extreme Second Amendment decision the court made two...
Can the prosecution call a cop as an expert witness to testify in a drug-trafficking case that most drug couriers — not necessarily the one on trial...
This Supreme Court term promises to be important for the First Amendment. Major decisions are expected soon on the rights of social media platforms...
On Thursday, the US Supreme Court unanimously rejected lower courts’ outrageous attempts to block access to the abortion medication mifepristone....
In a decision that may mark the low point for blinkered statutory interpretation in the history of the US Supreme Court, the conservative majority has...
It’s hard to imagine a clearer violation of journalistic ethics than pretending to hold beliefs you don’t, asking Supreme Court justices if they...
Martha-Ann Alito lets her freak flag fly. And her husband, Justice Samuel Alito, can’t do much about it, according to a letter he sent to two...
The historic felony conviction of former President Donald Trump marks a meaningful victory for the beleaguered American legal system and a win for...
According to the US Supreme Court, it’s perfectly fine for state legislatures to draw congressional districts according to political party — they...
Some may have been surprised that the conservative US Supreme Court would uphold the constitutionality of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, a...
A former president does not have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed in office. On that much, the justices of the Supreme...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical that prosecutors could use the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to go after Jan. 6...
When should a court issue an emergency order blocking a law or government action from going into effect even before the court has fully considered the...
Abortion is back at the Supreme Court. The case contests decisions by the Food and Drug Administration to make the drug mifepristone available by mail...
Is anti-Israel sentiment a form of antisemitism? The question poses a political, legal and practical conundrum for universities like Columbia,...
In a unanimous, pragmatic opinion, the US Supreme Court has drawn a roadmap allowing public officials to block users on social media. Faced with the...
The Supreme Court has unanimously concluded that Colorado can’t keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Section 3 of the 14th amendment, which says that a...
Every so often, a Supreme Court oral argument is so divorced from reality that even a seasoned court-watcher like myself finds it jaw-dropping. The...
The US Supreme Court has come under fire for what critics see as an unnecessary delay in the case of former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim....