Here are some of the right-wing activist’s stances on gun control, climate change and other issues.
The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgender athletes.
Jeffrey Toobin talks with Bryan Stevenson about surviving the politics of fear in 2025.
A trans-Atlantic debate over freedom of expression in Britain has simmered for months. The arrest of Graham Linehan last week may prove a tipping point.
Five words from the Declaration of Independence that national conservatives don’t like.
The decision is a win for Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor whom President Trump sought to dismiss over allegations of mortgage fraud.
The judge, a Democrat, concluded that fake electors recruited to support Donald J. Trump’s candidacy in 2020 did not understand that they were being asked to do something illegal.
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
President Emmanuel Macron is expected to appoint a new prime minister, rejecting calls for elections or his resignation.
The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.
A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders.
On this week’s round table, three Opinion writers discuss how to fight Trump’s takeover.
El mandatario está explotando un problema del sistema legal estadounidense para ampliar el poder presidencial.
In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.
The judge expressed deep skepticism of the administration’s arguments that it had the power to withhold funds appropriated by Congress.
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.
An appeals panel paused a federal judge’s ruling that no additional detainees could be sent to the center, and that much of it had to be dismantled within 60 days.
He’s exploiting a diabolical problem in our legal system to expand presidential power.
The ruling was a victory for the university in its battle with President Trump, but the judge’s decision may not be the final word.
Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.
El juez Amit Mehta dijo que la empresa debe entregar algunos de sus datos de búsqueda a sus rivales, pero no forzó otros grandes cambios.
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.
President Trump’s announcement came days after Rudolph W. Giuliani, previously his lawyer and a New York City mayor, was hurt in a car accident. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor.
The legal scholar Kate Shaw discusses Donald Trump’s recent winning streak with the Supreme Court and what it means for the state of Constitution.
The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of the administration’s tariffs to be illegal.
In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.
If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning an American flag is speech protected by the First Amendment. President Trump says it should be punished.
With children already loaded onto planes, a federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of them.
Los abogados argumentaron que el gobierno había violado el derecho de los niños al debido proceso e ignorado las protecciones especiales para menores que cruzan solos la frontera.
The ruling came hours after some shelters were directed to prepare children to be sent back to Guatemala. A hearing was scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
El fallo es un duro golpe para la política comercial del presidente Trump, pero los jueces dejaron los aranceles en vigor por ahora para dar tiempo a una probable apelación ante la Corte Suprema.
The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.
La autonomía de estas instituciones está en entredicho después de que Trump haya despedido o tomado medidas para despedir a sus dirigentes.
The request came after President Trump and several of his top aides had attacked Mr. Abrego Garcia as a threat, even though federal judges have ruled that he is not a danger to the public.
While the country is a constitutional monarchy that holds regular elections, analysts say it is beholden to an unelected old guard.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing a legal challenge that’s seen as an important test of her powerful family’s standing with Thailand’s old guard.
Trump officials say the president is within his rights to fire officials who do not share his agenda.
The ruling is a setback to President Trump and Kari Lake, a Trump ally who has led efforts to shutter federally funded news networks.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has struggled to convince judges and grand jurors of the viability of several cases arising from President Trump’s deployment of troops and federal agents to fight crime.
He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.
The conservative majority has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.
The White House is not the president’s property. Neither is Smithsonian. Or Washington itself.
Trump’s effort to oust Lisa Cook could have all sorts of worrisome consequences.
He will continue to oversee an office that often handles cases involving violent drug cartels and transnational repression. In making the choice, the judges avoided a political fight.
The judge used the ruling to take President Trump and some of his top aides to task for having repeatedly attacked other judges who have dared to rule against the White House.
The president said in a letter on Monday that he was removing the Federal Reserve governor from her duties, effective immediately.
The president wants to prosecute protesters who desecrate the American flag, but his order concedes that such protests are typically covered by the First Amendment.
In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.
La medida se produjo solo tres días después de que fuera puesto en libertad en la causa penal abierta contra él en el Tribunal Federal de Distrito de Nashville.
The move came only three days after he was freed from custody in the criminal case that was filed against him in Federal District Court in Nashville.
A single afternoon in court illustrated the new ways in which laws are being enforced after President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police.
A zealous New York personal injury lawyer, he won many news-making cases before his professional fall. He was reinstated after 16 years.
Una jueza dictaminó que los gobiernos estatal y federal actuaron ilegalmente al no realizar una revisión medioambiental antes de construir el centro en los Everglades de Florida.
The ruling involved a subset of applicants who had won the right to apply for a visa under a lottery system aimed at fostering diversity.
An amendment that can help save our democracy.
President Trump is getting universities, trading partners and law firms to agree to spend big on his terms, often to end fights he picked.
After making deals with the president to avoid punitive executive orders, Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis are helping the Commerce Department.
La ley indicaba que las escuelas públicas mostraran el decálogo en un lugar “notorio” de todas las aulas del estado antes del 1 de septiembre.
The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1.
It was the second time that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have sought to hold the Trump administration accountable over its handling of his expulsion to El Salvador and its aftermath.
Republican state lawmakers argue that Democratic lawmakers violated 30-day disclosure rules in the California Constitution.
How studying law helped me get over my fear of commitment.
Rubio, hijo de inmigrantes y ahora secretario de Estado, respondía a una demanda de 2016 que cuestionaba su elegibilidad para la presidencia.
Jay Clayton, whose Senate confirmation was stalled, could serve for the rest of the Trump presidency. He faced criticism after a prosecutor in his office was fired by the administration.
Rubio, a son of immigrants and now secretary of state, was responding to a 2016 lawsuit questioning his eligibility for the presidency.
The I.R.S. just needs to get the details right.
A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate imagery.
El progreso medioambiental del país sudamericano está amenazado por una serie de reformas impulsadas por su joven presidente populista, Daniel Noboa.
Ecuador’s ecological progress is threatened by a series of reforms steamrolled by its young populist president, Daniel Noboa.
The Trump administration had asked states to certify that their schools did not practice “illegal D.E.I.” and threatened to cut off billions of dollars from schools that did not comply.
The Trump administration has taken steps that have hobbled Washington’s efforts to reduce crime, such as gutting its U.S. attorney’s office and enacting budget cuts of more than $1 billion.
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority kicked away the best, even last, chance at a national solution to a national problem.
The Justice Department said the yacht, Amadea, was worth at least $300 million when it was seized in 2022 from a Russian oligarch. It’s unlikely to sell for that price.
Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department.
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
The spectacle of the White House suing an entire district court in the name of the United States of America underscored just how rancorous relations between the two branches had become.
The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.
“I’m glad it happened, even at my expense,” said Rod Ponton, who is (still) not a cat.
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.