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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...
On Friday, a Colorado court delivered its anticipated ruling on whether former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for a...
The Republican Party spent decades trying to make it harder for ordinary people to vote under the pretense that it was interested in combating the...
In the latest Mission: Impossible film, Tom Cruise’s character must defeat his most daunting threat yet: a renegade artificial intelligence program...
Last year, when it struck down New York’s concealed-carry law, the Supreme Court upended how the courts scrutinize gun regulations by creating an...
Last year, the Supreme Court established a major new test for Second Amendment cases that promised to shake up how lower courts review gun...
Few things are guaranteed at the Supreme Court. The justices can almost always choose to hear or not hear certain cases, to rule or not rule on...
It’s possible that former President Donald Trump will retake the White House in 2024. While Americans have yet to cast a single ballot in the...
Republicans in North Carolina are poised to wipe out the prospect of competitive legislative elections in their state for the rest of the decade. A...
No Labels, a well-funded centrist group in Washington, D.C., describes itself as “an organization of Democrats, Republicans, and independents...
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is usually pretty good at hiding exactly how he feels about policy issues. Strategic ambiguity has allowed him to...
Seventeen percent of Americans told Gallup last month that they approved of the way Congress handles its job. That number may be even lower among...
The Supreme Court signaled again this week that it would allow the federal government to regulate so-called “ghost guns,” despite legal...
The House of Representatives will hold a vote on Tuesday for a new speaker. While it’s far from guaranteed at this point, one likely outcome is that...
For three years in the thirteenth century, there was no pope. The cardinals who gathered in the small Italian town of Viterbo after Clement IV’s...
Four years ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a landmark decision on homelessness. The court ruled in Martin v. City of Boise that the...
The culture wars that divide American society can be stressful. They can be corrosive to public faith in institutions and in our trust for one...