Brando Simeo Starkey is the author of Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System, available June 3 wherever books are sold. The ...

As an opinion columnist for his college newspaper, Josh Divine never encountered a right-wing culture war he wouldn’t fight.

On Monday morning, in an all-caps social media post, President Donald Trump wished a happy Memorial Day to “USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR ...

At 6:56 a.m. on Thursday, a razor-thin majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a sweeping budget bill that would impose draconian cuts to critical public services, allocate ...

Getting on this White House’s Supreme Court shortlist is a matter of showing that you will be loyal to the president above all else. On Friday, the Supreme Court issued an order that temporarily ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Thursday in Trump v. CASA, the case about President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to rescind the Constitution’s grant of birthright citizenship.

Among the more challenging aspects of following oral argument in Trump v. CASA, a case about President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of ...

If you were crossing your fingers that President Donald Trump’s fixation on executive orders might mean he would forget about judicial nominations, welcome to the club of dashed hopes. Last week, he ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a one-page order in United States v. Shilling, an ongoing legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S.

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging to “unleash high-impact local police forces” across the country, thereby empowering officers to “aggressively” enforce the law. It ...

California’s February 2025 bar exam was, in technical terms, a hot-ass mess. Nearly 60 percent of post-exam survey respondents reported that the exam software froze, crashed, or otherwise became ...