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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Court's opinion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is awful not only for Medicaid patients, but also for millions of other people whose legal rights just got less safe.

Hearings After a lackluster performance at the hearing for Trump’s first batch of nominees earlier this month, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee showed up Wednesday much more prepared. And ...

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

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 ...