For the second year, half of Supreme Court cases involve the federal government as respondents or petitioners, a novel trend ...

The Idaho House has passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its Obergefell v. Hodges decision on ...

State legislators argue the opposite in the resolution, claiming the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage was made “in complete contravention of their own state ...

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping ...

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Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a ...

On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court granted the government’s application for stay of a recent district court’s preliminary ...

Trump’s order also has the effect of blocking most forms of diversity training. That’s hardly a loss. Study after study has shown that diversity training is often an expensive, divisive waste of time.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department ...

EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump has retained counsel from top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to represent him in his ongoing ...

Federal prosecutors said earlier this month that they would seek to send the former senator to prison for the next 15 years.

Former senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen ...