As a former White House reporter, I’m familiar with the conventional disputes between journalists and the president. This isn’t one of those.
A former solicitor general, Mr. Clement has argued over 100 cases before the Supreme Court. Now he will present independent arguments as a judge decides whether to drop the charges against the mayor.
The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.
Elon Musk’s super PAC has spent $1 million on canvassing operations supporting the conservative candidate in the race, his first election spending after the 2024 campaign.
Examining the legality of 38 major actions the president has taken in his first month.
The owner of The Clarksdale Press Register said he planned to challenge a judge’s order against an editorial that criticized city officials.
How the escalating measures available to courts would work.
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
People here illegally haven’t entered the social compact with the people of the United States.
An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power.
New York City’s mayor was accused of bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. President Trump’s administration wants him free to help with mass deportations.
The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate Danielle Sassoon. She resigned rather than drop a case she supported.
Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in Thursday’s showdown in the Eric Adams case.
Responses to the resignation of the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Also: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary; Donald Trump “winning.”
If the president’s defiance continues, the standoff will create the prospect of a constitutional crisis, and it will be the state attorneys general who will defend the rule of law.
He lacks the skill to govern in the way the founders intended.
The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects.
The president is challenging the constitutional order.
Mr. Blanche made clear that his prior work as a personal lawyer for the president informed his approach to the job of deputy attorney general.
Follow the lawsuits and rulings that are challenging President Trump's executive orders.
The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.
Readers discuss the showdown with President Trump. Also: A report on nature; Hank Azaria’s voice; A.I. jobs; attacks on diversity.
Unpacking the debate around President Trump’s executive orders.
The comments by the speaker were his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch, and in keeping with his move to define himself as a junior partner to President Trump.
The acting chair, Mark Uyeda, is directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to pause its legal defense of a rule requiring companies to make climate disclosures.
The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead to permanent residency.
La insinuación del presidente de que intentaría permanecer en el cargo más allá del límite constitucional se produce en un momento en el que ha presionado para ampliar la autoridad ejecutiva.
Cuando las autoridades negaron que fuera ciudadano, Wong Kim Ark llevó su caso ante la Corte Suprema y ganó. Hoy, esa decisión es el centro del debate sobre quién puede ser estadounidense.
The president’s suggestion that he would seek to stay in office beyond the constitutional limit comes as he has pushed to expand executive authority.
Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
A federal judge on the legal theory that is often at odds with an authoritarian view of governmental power.
When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.
The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration into Caesarism.
The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.
With a compliant Congress and mostly quiet streets, the president’s opponents are turning to the judicial branch with a flurry of legal actions. But can the courts keep up?
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has been balancing a desire to push back on Republican policies with a need to cooperate in seeking federal disaster aid.
An administration lawyer said a Tennessee law barring some medical treatments for transgender youths is constitutional and urged the justices to say so.
First Amendment experts say Mr. Trump’s lawsuits, based on an unproven legal theory, lack merit. But more could be on the way.
One of the D.N.C.’s first official moves with Ken Martin at the helm is joining a lawsuit seeking to block the hand-counting of ballots in Georgia.
We’re covering an imbalance of power in the government.
Msgr. James Kelly has been helping people obtain citizenship since he moved to Brooklyn in 1960. His job has never felt more urgent, or more controversial.
The injunction issued Thursday by a judge in Seattle came a day after another injunction stemming from a lawsuit in Maryland.
The president is using every tool at his disposal to reshape the American founding.
North Carolinians — all Americans — should be watching closely to ensure that justice is done.
New York City child welfare agencies routinely investigate parents who report being abused, but a state appellate court ruled on Wednesday that the practice is illegal.
Influencers known as guntubers are delving into the world of firearms, showing viewers everything from how to shoot to how to modify an AR-15.
The nationwide injunction, from a Maryland case, is more permanent than last month’s restraining order from a judge in Seattle.
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
Three counts found an incumbent Democrat won a State Supreme Court race. But the Republican candidate is trying to nullify more than 60,000 votes.
Leading the elite Wall Street firm Cravath, he became a go-to adviser on mergers and acquisitions — “all the big deals that were going on in the ’80s and ’90s.”
Media institutions and technology companies are offering obscene sums of money to settle feeble or frivolous lawsuits.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill meant to protect medical practitioners in New York who prescribe and send abortion pills out of state.
Two weeks in, the president is quickly moving to eliminate tools of accountability.
The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test.
President Ahmed al-Shara vowed to be inclusive, but the way crucial decisions have been made has left some Syrians wary.
Kash Patel invoked his right not to incriminate himself before a grand jury examining whether Donald Trump mishandled national security secrets.
The involvement of Sullivan & Cromwell in the appeal of President Trump’s criminal conviction underscored how New York’s legal power players have moved toward Mr. Trump.
El esfuerzo deliberado del presidente y su equipo por desplegar un flujo incesante de iniciativas ha desorientado a sus rivales en los primeros días del nuevo gobierno.
If confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would oversee the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies that issue key decisions for drug companies.
A deliberate effort by the president and his team to roll out an unceasing flow of initiatives has knocked his rivals off balance in the first days of the new administration.
The suit challenges an executive action that required trans women to be housed in prisons for men, and ends transition-related medical treatment for prisoners.
A contest for control of Wisconsin’s top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake.
The husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris will advise companies in crisis as a partner at the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
For the president’s opponents, it was a week that felt like a decade.
The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s proposal betrays that history.
Trump wants to change what it means to be American.
Us and them is all the rage.
Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.
There is no plausible justification for the administration’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
Minnesota’s top court ruled that Republicans had overstepped their authority by conducting business in the Legislature even as Democrats boycotted the session.
The March for Life on Friday brought together a movement invigorated by some early moves of the second Trump administration.
Tras la sentencia, emitida en Seattle, un portavoz del Departamento de Justicia prometió que “defenderá enérgicamente” la orden ejecutiva de Trump.
The decision could rip a hole in Berlin’s budget and complicate the transition to a greener economy.
The case is the second one this term asking the justices to decide when government activity crosses the line to become coercion forbidden by the First Amendment.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
After making little progress with Republican leaders at the White House on Tuesday, the president previewed two possible endgames to resolve a debt-limit standoff.
Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic.
The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot.
The unanimous ruling was the first one summarized by a justice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and an indication that the court is off to a slow start this term.
At issue is Title 42, a public health measure invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.