If you were crossing your fingers that President Donald Trump’s fixation on executive orders might mean he would forget about judicial nominations, welcome to the club of dashed hopes. Last week, he ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a one-page order in United States v. Shilling, an ongoing legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S.

Already, President Donald Trump’s attacks on BigLaw firms have earned him a deep bench of well-credentialed lawyers whom he considers available to serve his agenda at his convenience. Now, even firms ...

Since Trump won reelection in November, only 18 judges have created new vacancies for him to fill. The vast majority—16 of 18—have been district judges, and13 of those 16 were appointed by Republican ...

The Department of Justice announced last week that it dismissed a “half century old Louisiana consent decree” providing for the desegregation of public schools in Plaquemines Parish, located at the ...

David Souter, whom President George H.W. Bush appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990, and who spent the remainder of his 19-year tenure making conservatives insane with rage, died at his home in New ...

Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court will answer a question that feels like it should not be difficult: whether the Constitution gives parents a de facto veto over any aspect of public education ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging to “unleash high-impact local police forces” across the country, thereby empowering officers to “aggressively” enforce the law. It ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case arising from religious conservatives’ hostility to a Maryland school district’s inclusion of a handful of books with ...

The basis of the administration’s actions at both DOJ and the Department of Agriculture is a tortured reading of Title IX, a federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination in any education-related ...