Of the judges who have blocked the unelected billionaire’s efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ...

Recent Department of Justice guidance—perhaps “threat” more appropriately captures its approach—regarding private-sector use of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has rightfully drawn ire from ...

Earlier this month, Mother Jones reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that investigates allegations of illegal workplace discrimination, had suddenly stopped ...

For the past five weeks, co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been taking a sledgehammer to the federal government. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to establish a ...

If there’s a silver lining to the first few lawless weeks of Trump 2.0, it’s that new judicial vacancies have been slow to come in. As I noted in the last installment of this column, President Donald ...

This week, The Washington Post published a list of “50 People Shaping Our Society in 2025” that included Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell, whom it described as “part cultural conservative, part ...

In spring of 2018, Starbucks was embroiled in a crisis brought on by back-to-back racist incidents at its stores. First, a Starbucks employee in Philadelphia called the cops on two Black men and got ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith, a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had ...

Last month, Mitch McConnell ended his record-setting 18-year reign as the Republican Party’s leader in the Senate. McConnell, 82, will continue to serve until his term ends in 2027, but “from a ...

Three weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, federal courts have already played an important role in attempting to curb the most flagrantly illegal of the new administration’s actions. Lower ...

In the fall of 2023, Richard Snyder was summoned for jury duty at the Rensselaer County Supreme Court in Troy, New York. Not everyone who is summoned for jury duty makes it on a jury, though; instead, ...