The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to ...

With the Senate adjourned until 2026, the book is closed on President Donald Trump’s first-year judicial appointments. How much damage did he do this time around? In my view, a lot—his 26 appointees ...

From the “judges” deciding cases to the “rules” of evidence, every aspect of immigration court is stacked against the people ...

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...

Nearly 35 years ago, the Senate voted 58-42 to deny Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. Bork, a conservative judge and academic whose work was instrumental to the development of constitutional ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissenting opinion yesterday that did not mince words about the Supreme Court’s eager facilitation of the Trump administration’s discriminatory agenda. It was ...

As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly ...

In 1946, Congress quietly passed a statute giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance” from the border. Shortly thereafter, ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious ...