The justices’ decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services is the culmination of a decades-long conservative push to hollow out federal civil rights laws.

On Monday, in an unsigned, one-paragraph order, the Supreme Court’s six conservatives allowed President Donald Trump to functionally dismantle the Department of Education. The Court’s shadow docket ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, six conservative Christian justices decided that the First Amendment gives conservative Christian parents veto power over public school curriculum they don’t like.

The Court's opinion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is awful not only for Medicaid patients, but also for millions of other people whose legal rights just got less safe.

The White House keeps asking for permission to break the law. In cases like DHS v DVD, the justices keep giving it.

The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Skrmetti that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution is no obstacle to laws that deny lifesaving medical care to transgender children. In 2023 ...

Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nomination hearing for, among others, Whitney Hermandorfer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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 ...

Republicans’ threats against the judiciary have some judges trying to figure out just how unsafe they are.

James Ho knows that getting on the Supreme Court shortlist is a matter of showing that you will be loyal to the president above all else.