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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In spring of 2018, Starbucks was embroiled in a crisis brought on by back-to-back racist incidents at its stores. First, a Starbucks employee in Philadelphia called the cops on two Black men and got ...

If there’s a silver lining to the first few lawless weeks of Trump 2.0, it’s that new judicial vacancies have been slow to come in. As I noted in the last installment of this column, President Donald ...

This week, The Washington Post published a list of “50 People Shaping Our Society in 2025” that included Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell, whom it described as “part cultural conservative, part ...

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 ...

On January 27, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies with a subject line reading, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and ...

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 ...