Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed at 10 AM today as punishment for a murder he did not commit. At 9:59, Oklahoma ...
Interesting to which issues prompt judges to get worked up about other judges deciding cases in line with their personal ideological agendas.
Over the last seven weeks, Senate Republicans have picked up the pace in confirming judges whose unifying characteristic is their desperation to demonstrate their loyalty to President Donald Trump ...
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of someone you’d probably forgotten about until right now: Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who became a national news story in 2015 ...
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 ...
On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...