The A.C.L.U. asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal from DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist sued by a Louisiana police officer.
The lessons from Nixon and Clinton.
The attorney general embodies the combative culture and conservative ideology that animate the president and the Republican Party. Is he what the party looks like post-Trump?
President Trump is refusing to engage and Democrats have concluded they will press ahead anyway, rendering a historic undertaking little more than a foregone conclusion.
What “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” really means.
Kneeling during the national anthem is a “completely appropriate protest” that should have been protected by Kennesaw State University, a lawyer for the student said.
Senators, temporarily relegated to the sidelines as the House begins impeachment proceedings against President Trump, lament inaction as legislation languishes.
Delaware tries to achieve partisan balance on its courts. A federal appeals said that violates the First Amendment.
At least when it comes to “cases of impeachment.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Judiciary Committee to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump.
The speaker said she was instructing House committee chairmen to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Trump; another hearing is scheduled for Monday.
The articles of impeachment against the president will reverberate through time and set the terms of possible reforms.
A push to expand the Second Amendment produces some judicial contortions.
The House Judiciary Committee, in its first public impeachment hearing, went back to the basics of the Constitution.
Democrats and Republicans clashed over the Constitution and President Trump’s conduct as the House Judiciary Committee formally began its impeachment proceedings.
Democrats and Republicans clashed over the Constitution and President Trump’s conduct as the House Judiciary Committee formally began its impeachment proceedings.
At the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing, Republicans’ witness said lawmakers were rushing impeachment and should instead let court fights over access to witnesses play out.
At the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing, Republicans’ witness said lawmakers were rushing the process and should instead let court fights over access to witnesses play out.
The administration wants to require hospitals to reveal the rates they privately negotiate with insurers for all sorts of procedures, amid the public outcry over surprise medical bills.
Mr. Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School who has written widely about religion and the law, has said the country faces a constitutional crisis.
Another surge of stringent abortion limits is expected in state legislatures next year, highlighting a rift among conservatives about political strategy.
Our reporters Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer answered reader questions about the political fight in the United States over abortion.
A decade-old legal fight shapes a mayoral race and offers the Supreme Court a chance to weigh in.
Arguments in the court’s first case on the scope of the Second Amendment in nearly a decade focused on whether the repeal of a New York law made the case moot.
Once in the Oval Office, a demagogue can easily stay there.
Following a change in personnel, the court could expand the scope of Second Amendment rights and chastise lower courts that have upheld gun control laws.
Jay Sekulow is a trusted, telegenic presidential adviser more experienced in religious liberty cases than impeachment battles.
A reader discusses the environmental risks posed by wood-burning ovens. Also: Term limits; a bad education bill; wealth inequality; foster care and bias.
Lawyers on the right are advancing arguments they once rejected on principle.
How a hedge fund’s efforts to take the island territory to the cleaners wound up before the Supreme Court — with ordinary Puerto Ricans arguing in the hedge fund’s favor.
The presidential candidates’ positions reflect a fundamental and politically consequential change in the party’s approach to reproductive issues.
The president has vowed to ask the justices to intercede, but the Constitution and precedents are against him.
A California school district said it was investigating and apologized if students felt “discomfort” about what happened.
A provost at Indiana University has earned praise for harshly condemning a professor’s views while respecting the First Amendment.
A speech by Mr. Barr last week, in which he argued that Mr. Trump had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed a group of lawyers that they felt compelled to push back publicly.
Public defenders lack access to gadgets and software that could keep their clients out of jail.
The federal appeals courts are not irretrievably lost for liberals.
The lawyer, Robert Luskin, also represented the Republican strategist Karl Rove and likely spared him a perjury charge.
China’s legislative body criticized a court ruling overturning a ban on wearing masks, signaling that it was the final arbiter of law in Hong Kong.
Staff lawyers for the Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are asking many of the questions as witnesses testify publicly.
Se cumple un mes de las protestas masivas en el país y hay esperanzas: el gobierno y las fuerzas opositoras acordaron un proyecto común para facilitar lo que las calles reclaman, una nueva constitución que conduzca a un Chile más digno y justo.
By opening the door to a new founding charter, Chileans are ready to build their own future — by dismantling the constitutional edifice that Augusto Pinochet left behind.
The attorney general wrapped his maximalist vision of executive power around an embattled president.
The leader, Jeanine Añez, promised to unify a nation in turmoil. But her initial steps, taking the country rightward and injecting religious themes, risk deepening the divide.
The attorney general strongly defended President Trump’s assertions of executive power.
Her declaration reflected a shift by Trump’s critics from talking about the Ukraine affair using more abstract concepts like “quid pro quo” or “abuse of power.”
After finding the strip club next door closed, judges who were in Indianapolis for a conference got into a fight that left two of them hospitalized.
The country plans to hold a referendum next April on replacing the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.
A fight over a Manhattan grand jury subpoena could yield a major decision on presidential power.
The president’s efforts to prevent the House from doing its job are just as worrisome as the Ukraine scandal.
A reader decries a proposed rule that would limit the research used to determine environmental regulations. Also: Endless wars; electric scooters in New York; Elizabeth Warren’s corporate law experience.
Members of the military, speaking out.
Five people have been killed and thousands injured in weeks of protests.
An appeals court struck down a broad 1986 law under the First Amendment, saying it covers conversations between family members and legal advice.
Writing a century ago this weekend, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. created our modern understanding of the First Amendment.