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The Supreme Court appeared to be split on Monday on whether an Oregon city’s ordinances that make it illegal to sleep outdoors in public spaces...
Almost every professional athlete hopes to be famous one day—to shatter records and break streaks; to enshrine themselves in their sport’s...
The Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each year. It agrees to hear only a handful of them. The rest are denied without any...
When the Supreme Court overturned a Colorado court ruling last month that had disqualified former President Donald Trump from the state ballot, the...
The Supreme Court saved one of its most important cases of the term for last. Later this month, the justices will hear oral arguments in Trump v....
The Arizona Supreme Court hoisted a sword of Damocles over the state on Tuesday by reviving a near-total ban on abortion that had been moribund for...
The Biden administration is seeking to intervene in a major Supreme Court case on criminalizing homelessness, thrusting itself into a high-profile...
The Supreme Court’s current term is winding down, with only a handful of oral arguments left and plenty of opinions to be written. The presidential...
Americans are a litigious people. But there are some people that even Americans can’t sue for wronging us. One of the most surprising categories is...
The American Conservative magazine published an article last week in which the author, Peter Tonguette, argued that Trump should be able to run for a...
If it feels like you read a lot of news stories that begin with “A federal judge in Texas ruled that …,” you aren’t imagining things. A clique...
The Supreme Court appeared unwilling on Tuesday to uphold a lower court ruling that would limit access to mifepristone, the nation’s most commonly...
Next year marks the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Reflecting on the last 24 years conjures up all sorts of turning points: the...
For a few hours on Tuesday night, the state of Texas had its own immigration system. The Supreme Court declined to block Senate Bill 4, the state’s...
Former President Donald Trump has filed yet another defamation lawsuit against a news outlet. This time, the target is ABC News and anchor George...
The Supreme Court has sided with the National Rifle Association on Second Amendment issues from time to time. Now the court appears ready to side with...
Americans are currently bracing themselves for the 2024 presidential election this November, which will now almost certainly be a rematch of the race...
The Supreme Court released its 13-page decision in Trump v. Anderson on Monday. In their ruling, which is 9–0 for some parts and 5–4 for others,...
The Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on Wednesday by announcing it would decide whether President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution in the...
It’s been more than two years since the Supreme Court opened a new frontier for gun laws. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the...
Defamation cases are hard to win in the United States. Starting with its 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court has required...
The Alabama Supreme Court stunned the nation earlier this week by ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law. The decision has vast...
Elon Musk is not a fan of unions. Nor are Amazon, Starbucks, or, apparently, Trader Joe’s. Those four companies opened the new year by mounting a...
Welcome to the least surprising turn of events imaginable: Federal prosecutors have charged a former FBI informant on Thursday with lying to the...
In his majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization two years ago, Justice Samuel Alito said the court overturned Roe v. Wade so...
Street protests are an unruly but essential part of democracy. Courts have long held that those who organize them are generally protected by the First...
The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to want to disqualify former President Donald Trump from political office for his role in the January 6 insurrection....
Something extraordinary is set to happen on Thursday: The Supreme Court will interpret part of the Constitution for the first time. Neither the...
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that the use of affirmative action in college admissions violated the...
Americans are now one month into a presidential election year, and the Republican Party is acting accordingly. GOP office-holders at every level of...
Horse racing is one of America’s oldest sports yet one of the least scrutinized. With a fatality rate for jockeys that outpaces that of NASCAR...
On Wednesday, Texas’s ongoing spat with the federal government over border enforcement hit new heights of escalation. Governor Greg Abbott issued a...
American courts and judges are usually pretty good at explaining themselves. They write opinions laying out their reasoning in detail. This informs...
Say what you will about Texas lawmakers, but they are an innovative bunch. Two years ago, they managed to end legal abortion—even before the Supreme...
It was approaching midnight on election night, and the networks had just declared that Democrats had won the presidential election. Donald Trump was...
In 2015, Donald Trump infamously launched his first presidential campaign by descending a faux-gilded escalator and saying of undocumented immigrants,...
The Supreme Court announced this week that it would take up a few major cases. One involved mifepristone, the most commonly used abortion drug in the...
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would take up its first abortion-related case since overturning Roe v. Wade last year. Abortion...
The standoff over presidential immunity in former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases is now before the Supreme Court. Special counsel Jack...
The 20-week marker is one of the most important milestones of a pregnancy. For most expectant mothers, the ultrasound that is usually first performed...
Former President Donald Trump appeared on a town hall hosted by Sean Hannity, his phone buddy at Fox News, on Tuesday night. It would be hard to...
Chief Justice John Roberts may have given away the outcome in Moore v. United States on Tuesday as he wrapped up the two-hour oral argument session....
New York Representative George Santos etched his name into history on Friday by becoming the twenty-first person to be expelled from the House of...
The Supreme Court appears poised to curb the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house enforcement power on Seventh Amendment grounds. During...
Seven years ago, former President Donald Trump raised his hand to take the presidential oath of office. He swore to “faithfully execute the office...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is now 58 years old. If it were a person, it would be eligible to start making IRA withdrawals without penalties next...