On Tuesday, Susan Crawford won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, handily defeating her Republican-backed, Elon Musk-boosted opponent, Brad Schimel. For all the anticipation ...

Of the 16 people executed by the federal government since it reinstated the death penalty in 1988, all but three were killed during President Donald Trump’s first term. Over half of those ...

As Elon Musk attacks the federal workforce, President Donald Trump has taken aim at officials who protect workers—federal and otherwise. In the first month of his administration, Trump attempted to ...

Late last week, the Trump White House dropped yet another unconstitutional executive order that threatens whatever remains of the rule of law. But rather than once again targeting one of his old ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced a sweeping executive order targeting the law firm of Paul Weiss, which, the White House says, has “played an outsized role…in the destruction of ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that could further limit Black people’s access to the political process.

If you are a Supreme Court justice attending a State of the Union address, the rules of engagement are pretty simple: Your job, no matter what the president says or does, is to sit quietly and ...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump fired Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, the two Democratic appointees to the five-member Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumers from abuses of ...

There are currently 53 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 8 are district court judgeships where Democratic senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...

The conservative legal movement is disappointed in Amy Coney Barrett. Last Tuesday, Barrett dissented along with the three liberal justices from the Court’s decision in San Francisco v. EPA, in which ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided yet another case making it harder to protect the environment, siding with the city of San Francisco in its challenge to limitations on dumping sewage in ...

Two years ago, voters in Wisconsin flipped control of their state’s supreme court, yielding the court’s first 4–3 liberal majority since 2008. That majority wasted no time delivering for the people of ...