Of the judges who have blocked the unelected billionaire’s efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ...

Welcome back to the second part of our two-part series looking at what President Donald Trump can do to alter the makeup of the powerful regional courts of appeals during his second term. In the first ...

On February 5, Pam Bondi took the oath of office as U.S. Attorney General and became the head of the Department of Justice. Within hours, she sent a memo to all DOJ employees advising them that the ...

Recent Department of Justice guidance—perhaps “threat” more appropriately captures its approach—regarding private-sector use of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has rightfully drawn ire from ...

Earlier this month, Mother Jones reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that investigates allegations of illegal workplace discrimination, had suddenly stopped ...

For the past five weeks, co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been taking a sledgehammer to the federal government. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to establish a ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith, a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had ...

Last month, Mitch McConnell ended his record-setting 18-year reign as the Republican Party’s leader in the Senate. McConnell, 82, will continue to serve until his term ends in 2027, but “from a ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is more than an ineffectual attempt to change the law or redefine the identity of the nation. It represents a calculated ...

Three weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, federal courts have already played an important role in attempting to curb the most flagrantly illegal of the new administration’s actions. Lower ...

In the fall of 2023, Richard Snyder was summoned for jury duty at the Rensselaer County Supreme Court in Troy, New York. Not everyone who is summoned for jury duty makes it on a jury, though; instead, ...