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 ...

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed a budget reconciliation bill which, if enacted, would slash lifesaving health and food assistance by hundreds of billions of dollars, and transfer billions more ...

The choice-of-provider statute, Jackson argued, “easily satisfies” the test for creating such a right, even if legislators didn’t anticipate Gorusch subjecting the law to a magic word test 60 years ...

Democratic politicians are fond of casting Trump as a threat to democracy and the rule of law, and are very aware of the power of political theater when they have new books to promote or campaign ...

On Monday, the Republicans on the Supreme Court issued an unsigned, unexplained order permitting the Trump administration to ship noncitizens to countries where they have never been and where they may ...

Assuming Artau’s responses are truthful, it is of course a relief to know that his concurrence wasn’t part of a quid pro quo arrangement. But his responses are also not inconsistent with him choosing ...

It’s a bad omen when one sees that Clarence Thomas has the majority opinion in a free speech case. Over the last decade, Thomas’s majorities have struck down government action ranging from the anodyne ...

Hearings After a lackluster performance at the hearing for Trump’s first batch of nominees earlier this month, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee showed up Wednesday much more prepared. And ...

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 ...

The study of McDonald’s death toll exposes the failures of a legal culture that strips Supreme Court cases of their context, reducing literal life-or-death questions to abstract debates about how to ...

This section of Barrett’s opinion echoes her comments at oral argument in Skrmetti, when she asserted, to the surprise of anyone with access to Google, that no “history of de jure discrimination ...

John Badalamenti, a federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, co-taught a seminar on originalism at University of Florida Law last fall. At the end of the term, he bestowed the ...