If saying the quiet part out loud were an Olympic sport, President Donald Trump’s remarks at the White House yesterday would win a gold medal. “We took the freedom of speech away,” said Trump on ...

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the ...

On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, the latest gambit by right-wing activists at the Alliance Defending Freedom to repurpose the First Amendment as a weapon ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court officially began its new term. If you had no idea the Court’s term ever ended, that’s understandable: The Trump administration peppered the Court with emergency petitions ...

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They ...

Across 27 states, licensed mental health practitioners are legally restricted or prohibited from subjecting minors to “conversion therapy,” which refers to pseudoscientific efforts to change a ...

On Wednesday, MSNBC reported that the Department of Justice is nearly ready to act on one of the president’s decade-old grievances by bringing criminal charges against James Comey, the former director ...

There is a reverence to the way law schools teach Supreme Court history: Precedent is everything, so the writings of early justices are paramount. And although John Jay was the first Chief Justice of ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump’s request that he be allowed to fire Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission without cause, despite the existence of a federal ...

The August recess is over, which means that Senate Republicans are back to work ramming President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees through the confirmation process. While the Senate was away, Trump ...