According to Clarence Thomas, mail that your mail carrier steals from you is really just “lost,” if you think about it.

As Republican state legislatures have pursued ever more extreme policies on issues like abortion, gender-affirming care, and voting rights, they have occasionally run into a surprising obstacle: ...

For as long as President Donald Trump has been flooding blue cities with ICE agents looking to abduct nonwhite people, federal judges have been concluding that ICE is violating federal statutes and ...

Last year, the Trump administration sent over 100 Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison labor camp in El Salvador without giving them any opportunity to challenge the legal basis of their removal, ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court released its first decisions of the term that began back in October. The Court typically saves its most divisive rulings for the end of its term, in June or July, ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in Trump v. Cook, a case about President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Dr. Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The Federal ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ, a pair of cases about state laws that prohibit transgender women and girls from playing school sports on ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened for its final meeting on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominations before lawmakers head home for the holidays. Among the nominees who ...

When Joseph Clifton Smith, an Alabama man who was convicted of murder in 1998, was in third grade, he needed help reading at a first-grade level. His teachers ordered further testing, which yielded an ...

Two weeks ago, a federal district court declared Texas Republicans’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and blocked it from taking ...

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 ...

In the early hours of September 30, nearly 300 masked ICE agents descended upon an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, pouring out of the backs of U-Haul vans on the street ...