The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

Katie Wood, 26, teaches 10th-grade algebra at her hometown high school, about a half-hour south of Tampa. She is also a transgender woman. On her first day teaching in August 2021, she wrote “Ms. Wood ...

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the conservative legal movement’s most ambitious attempt yet to refashion this country’s 250-year-old history of ...

Another Supreme Court term has come and gone, which means it is once again time for law professors to write opinion columns revealing just how little they understand the subjects they are handsomely ...

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed a budget reconciliation bill which, if enacted, would slash lifesaving health and food assistance by hundreds of billions of dollars, and transfer billions more ...

It’s a bad omen when one sees that Clarence Thomas has the majority opinion in a free speech case. Over the last decade, Thomas’s majorities have struck down government action ranging from the anodyne ...

The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Skrmetti that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution is no obstacle to laws that deny lifesaving medical care to transgender children. In 2023 ...

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 ...

The Opinions Ho often confuses being a federal judge with being a speechwriter for a right-wing shock jock’s presidential campaign. He frequently begins opinions with an attempt at a pithy one-liner ...