President Donald Trump’s ambitious efforts to pack the federal courts with judges who are loyal to him above all else is running headlong into the simple fact that there just aren’t that many ...
In July 2025, Trump’s Department of Justice served sweeping administrative subpoenas on more than 20 hospitals and clinics across the country that provide gender-affirming care to transgender young ...
The Justice Department keeps handing massive taxpayer-funded settlements to President Trump’s political allies.
The following paragraph includes a lot of scare quotes, but I promise that you will soon understand why: On Monday, the Justice Department announced that it had “settled” a “lawsuit” brought by ...
In April 2025, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into Yale University, accusing its medical school of making admissions decisions based on race and, in so doing, violating the Civil ...
On April 29, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Louisiana v. Callais, stripping the Voting Rights Act of its remaining effectiveness. Callais stands beside the Court’s 2013 decision ...
Who is President Biden nominating to the bench? How many judicial vacancies are there? Who controls federal courts of appeals? Read on to find out.
In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the ...
The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.
The decision could cost Democrats four seats in the House, and ensures that the Supreme Court’s pro-gerrymandering jurisprudence protects only its preferred political party.