A divided panel of three federal judges issued a preliminary order on Tuesday blocking Texas’s electoral map, which Texas Republican lawmakers adopted in August at the behest of the Trump ...

The Trump administration published a proposed rule on Monday that would redefine the term “waters of the United States” as Congress used it in the Clean Water Act. The change would revoke the federal ...

But on Monday, NPR revealed that the initiative had an enthusiastic cheerleader at an even earlier stage in its development: ...

On Thursday, a federal district judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s mass cancellation of grants related to “diversity” to move forward, rejecting the Trump administration ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed at 10 AM today as punishment for a murder he did not commit. At 9:59, Oklahoma ...

Interesting to which issues prompt judges to get worked up about other judges deciding cases in line with their personal ...

Generally, a common-law principle known as sovereign immunity prevents the federal government from being sued, unless the government chooses to waive that privilege. In 1946, Congress laid out a few ...

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, two consolidated cases that aim to kill off the remnants of the Voting Rights Act—and, with it, the ability ...

On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...