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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guantánamo Bay has been synonymous with indefinite detention and torture for decades. The Migrant Operations Center is a small facility where the government warehouses asylum seekers and refugees ...

Following up on repeated campaign promises, the Trump administration has started pursuing the mass deportation of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants present in the United States. Some ...

Deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition, since 2021 ...

On September 6, 2023, the Senate confirmed Gwynne Wilcox for a second five-year term on the National Labor Relations Board, the independent federal agency charged with protecting and enforcing workers ...

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 ...

Last Monday, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president again, and marked his return to the White House with a deluge of day-one directives. Among them was a grant of clemency for people who tried to ...