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

On Monday, in an unsigned, one-paragraph order, the Supreme Court’s six conservatives allowed President Donald Trump to functionally dismantle the Department of Education. The Court’s shadow docket ...

The justices’ decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services is the culmination of a decades-long conservative push to hollow out federal civil rights laws.

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 ...

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, six conservative Christian justices decided that the First Amendment gives conservative Christian parents veto power over public school curriculum they don’t like.

The White House keeps asking for permission to break the law. In cases like DHS v DVD, the justices keep giving it.

The law professor Noah Feldman's Supreme Court term recap reveals how hard pundits are working to reimagine the conservative project.

Trump views judicial nominations as prizes to dole out to his political allies. Ambitious Republican lawyers are making sure he notices their efforts.

If this scheme feels familiar, it’s because the Supreme Court blessed one just like it a few days ago. Federal law requires states to ensure that Medicaid patients may obtain services from “any ...

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 ...

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 ...