Reshaping the federal judiciary has been the singular success of President Donald Trump’s political project. Throughout his first term, Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate—with the help of the ...

Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened for its final meeting on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominations before lawmakers head home for the holidays. Among the nominees who ...

The Justice Department keeps handing massive taxpayer-funded settlements to President Trump’s political allies.

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 ...

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 ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...

On Friday, May 8, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a congressional district map that was approved by 1.6 million Virginia voters just last month. Voters amended the state constitution in April ...

On Monday evening, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court issued yet another order tilting elections in favor of Republicans—and against Black voters. Allen v. Caster reinstates a congressional ...