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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Badalamenti, a federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, co-taught a seminar on originalism at University of Florida Law last fall. At the end of the term, he bestowed the ...

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 ...

On Sunday, 11 days after the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s first batch of judicial nominees, the committee published the nominees’ answers to ...

Alito would claim he did no such thing: In Dobbs, he repeatedly assured the reader that abortion is “unique.” Unlike abortion, Alito says, the cases protecting the right to marry a person of a ...

The administration is making a habit out of stretching the limits of legal language in effort to operate outside of legal bounds. In March, Trump conflated a criminal gang’s activities with “warfare” ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nomination hearing for, among others, Whitney Hermandorfer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.