This week, The Washington Post published a list of “50 People Shaping Our Society in 2025” that included Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell, whom it described as “part cultural conservative, part ...

In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith, a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

Three weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, federal courts have already played an important role in attempting to curb the most flagrantly illegal of the new administration’s actions. Lower ...

On January 27, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies with a subject line reading, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and ...

In the fall of 2023, Richard Snyder was summoned for jury duty at the Rensselaer County Supreme Court in Troy, New York. Not everyone who is summoned for jury duty makes it on a jury, though; instead, ...

Shortly after taking the oath of office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship—this country’s 157-year-old tradition of conferring ...

Over half of American workers, amounting to upwards of 80 million people, participate in a retirement plan sponsored by their employer. And while the specifics of these plans can vary from job to job, ...

Donald Trump re-made the federal judiciary between 2017 and 2021. His 234 nominees confirmed to the federal bench include judges like Matthew Kacsmaryk, Aileen Cannon, James Ho, and others who have ...

One of President Joe Biden’s earliest campaign pledges was to remake the federal bench to better reflect the diversity of the country it serves. Whatever else you want to say about the Biden ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is more than an ineffectual attempt to change the law or redefine the identity of the nation. It represents a calculated ...

Last year, Black Louisianans successfully argued in federal court that the state’s Republican-led legislature unlawfully diluted their voting strength, by adopting a redistricting plan that packed the ...