Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed at 10 AM today as punishment for a murder he did not commit. At 9:59, Oklahoma ...

Since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, he has acted as though he has the powers of a king. He has fired independent agency heads and tens of thousands of federal employees, ...

Just before Labor Day, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals set the stage for what may be the most consequential labor law confrontation in a generation. In its opinion in SpaceX v. National Labor ...

Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made waves earlier this month when she used her perch to offer a vision of racial equality that stands at odds with how the Supreme Court often treats matters of race.

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...

Nina Totenberg, the longtime NPR legal affairs correspondent, has a defiant message for her haters in her new book Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships. Despite persistent ...

Late last week, the Trump White House dropped yet another unconstitutional executive order that threatens whatever remains of the rule of law. But rather than once again targeting one of his old ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious ...

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...

Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...

At first, school officials allowed parents to opt their children out of lessons involving these books. But after this proved to be a logistical nightmare in Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest ...