Demand Justice plans to tie Republicans running for Senate this year to a possible fight to fill vacancies that could emerge on the Supreme Court.
On Thursday, President Trump announced on social media that Attorney General Pam Bondi would be leaving her role for a new position in the private sector.
The opinion could set the stage for President Trump to refuse to give the National Archives many of his own official documents when he leaves office.
The board had been expected to vote to approve the project last month, but it was delayed after about 32,000 mostly negative comments rolled in from across the country.
The justices seems poised to rule against the president’s birthright citizenship plan. He is already furious over their decision rejecting his tariffs program.
The justices gave respectful consideration to what was once a fringe theory and could rule against it on grounds that would allow Congress to return to the question.
A coalition of legal groups claims the Homeland Security Department adopted an unconstitutional policy allowing its agents to enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote — the husband’s. They say the idea is catching on.
Está en juego algo más que un caso legal: la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento toca el núcleo de la cultura y los valores estadounidenses.
Los jueces de la Corte de EE. UU. se enfrentaron a cuestiones sobre domicilios y niños expósitos, evitaron debates políticos y reflexionaron sobre el alcance de posibles sentencias.
A federal judge in California ordered agents to thoroughly document any future stops in an area spanning 34 counties.
The case is open-and-shut on the merits. But its procedural course still leaves plenty of room for Trump administration overreach.
The justices grappled with questions about domiciles and foundlings, avoided policy debates and mused about the sweep of possible rulings.
A new filing asks a federal court to allow the White House to dismiss much of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s remaining work force, but not close the bureau entirely.
Un juez federal decidió que el gobierno de Trump estaba en su derecho de exigir a la universidad dicha información como parte de una investigación sobre antisemitismo. La universidad dijo que apelaría la sentencia.
Different treatment for mothers and fathers is at odds with a 2017 Supreme Court decision, and other ideas in the order are hard to understand.
Trump is on a mission to eliminate birthright citizenship, a right long thought to be guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. But how will the Supreme Court respond? The legal journalist Cristian Farias shares his insights.
She has spent much of her career defending immigrants’ rights in America.
We look at an important case before the Supreme Court.
Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.
The justices will consider the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented people and some temporary foreign visitors.
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers could be in and out of court in Manhattan through the end of the year. A judge could decide as early as Wednesday on whether to delay his federal case.
President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.
A federal judge in Rhode Island said that the administration had wrongly demanded that groups seeking grants comply with its agenda on other issues, including immigration.
The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years.
David McCraw, who heads the newsroom legal team for The New York Times, discusses the case and his view of the judge’s ruling.
A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the legal status of those who were invited to use the Biden-era app.
The government’s effort to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus as it investigates antisemitism has upset some people who worry about how the information will be used.
The state and more than 20 others restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of L.G.B.T.Q. clients under the age of 18.
As the justices prepare to hear a landmark case about birthright citizenship, their family stories are a reminder that the law has shaped who can be an American.
El miércoles, la Corte Suprema escuchará los argumentos sobre la legalidad de la orden ejecutiva de Trump, y algunos expertos legales conservadores afirman que podría ser un caso más disputado de lo que se pensaba.
Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency’s inspector general appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize misconduct.
Three men working for an American security contractor say the United Arab Emirates paid them to carry out targeted killings in Yemen. One of their targets is suing them in U.S. federal court.
Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship for U.S.-born babies.
The framers of the 14th Amendment endorsed a capacious definition of ‘American.’
Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.
Courts aren’t always the right answer to our digital problems.
His project of subordination at home and abroad continues unabated.
The president must confront a 1952 federal law, the possibility that millions will lose their citizenships, stateless foundlings and a fluid future.
Federal judges are weighing strategies for how to respond to the high stakes, anonymous threats and politicized atmosphere of the Trump era.
In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become.
Courts are weighing whether the administration can hold undocumented immigrants without bond, an issue that may be resolved by the Supreme Court.
In a report obtained by The New York Times, a panel of judges found that evidence of sexual misconduct by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court left room for “reasonable doubt.”
The decision represents a setback to other local governments around the country that have sued oil companies to recoup the mounting costs of climate change.
The company said in a legal filing that the department sought to fashion an “end run” when it issued revised media rules on Monday.
Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the committee, was appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a purge of the previous advisers.
“Who won the 2020 election?” is the question that Trump’s nominees to the federal bench each refuse to answer in the same exact way.
Federal judges appointed Robert Frazer to run New Jersey’s U.S. attorney’s office, which has been in disarray over the past year because of uncertainty about who was in charge.
As the president develops plans to fundamentally alter the White House, the Kennedy Center and other sites, federal lawsuits are beginning to catch up.
The case focuses on Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law, but the outcome could upend similar rules in more than a dozen states and territories.
Placing too much faith in the law mistakes litigation for resistance.
A federal judge tossed parts of the Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets, saying they violated the First Amendment, in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times.
The California State University system joins a short list of universities fighting Trump orders in court. The Education Department has threatened to cut federal funds to San Jose State University.
Obsessed with proving his innocence, Quentin Lewis devoted years in isolation to learning the law. Now he is taking on his captors in prison tribunals.
On a new generation of leaders on the left.
Readers react to the Times investigation of the labor leader and civil rights icon. Also: A decision on vaccines; shielding lawyers.
In a caustic critique of the court issued on social media late Sunday night, the president inadvertently buttressed its independence.
The appointment raised concerns that the Trump administration would try to erode the news group’s independence after picking a deputy who had been at conservative news channels for around 20 years.
A judge ruled in December that the agency could not cancel a program that had helped states invest billions of dollars in disaster readiness.
James Johnson, a correction officer at the Metropolitan Detention Center, first abused a male inmate inside a chaplain’s office, prosecutors said.
Lawyers asked a federal judge to move his trial to 2027, to give them time to prepare for a separate state case. Prosecutors are expected to oppose the request.
In Washington on Thursday, President Trump is expected to press Sanae Takaichi for military help in the Strait of Hormuz. But she faces constraints on what she can offer.
Lawyers for both sides in the federal lawsuit, brought by six medical organizations, are trying to understand the ramifications of the judge’s decision.
The public remarks from Chief Justice John Roberts were his first since President Trump excoriated the justices who ruled against his tariffs in harsh and personal terms.
Judge Zahid Quraishi ordered a hearing on who had the authority to lead New Jersey’s top federal law enforcement office.
Proposed settlements would block wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The administration’s policy of deporting people to South Sudan, Rwanda and other distant countries has been a striking attempt to create uncertainty for immigrants.
After declining an invitation from President Trump, Pope Leo XIV will make a virtual appearance on July 3 at the National Constitution Center to accept its Liberty Medal.
A judge ordered that Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat, be given access to planning documents and have the chance to oppose changes to the center at a board meeting next week.
Don’t let the First Amendment arguments fool you.
The veteran, Jay Carey, was arrested the same day that President Trump signed an executive order to punish flag burning, a First Amendment right.
One woman’s small case turned upside down is a peek into how civil rights enforcement is now operating.
The consequences would be grave.
On the modes of authoritarian crisis, more of the same and constitutional regime change.
The head of the General Services Administration said a proposal to transfer control of courthouse buildings to the judiciary was a bad idea.
The damages would be paid by a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.
The government must update a federal court on Thursday about its timeline for returning roughly $166 billion in illegal duties.
A Washington Post appeal for information about the military qualified as prohibited “solicitation,” according to defense officials.
Our reporter Charlie Savage describes the efforts by President Trump’s allies to avoid labeling the war in Iran as a war, and details how Congress came to shrug off its constitutional authority over war-making.
In a rare joint appearance, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett M. Kavanaugh offered sharply different views on how the court should handle emergency requests.
The ruling is part of a broader dispute between the independent federal judiciary and the executive branch’s immigration court system.
A lawsuit filed on Monday argues that a State Department’s decision to withhold visas from experts who have pushed for stronger social media regulations is illegal.
The groups are working to educate voters in the South about how they would be affected if the court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.
Mojtaba Khamenei takes on a role that makes him not only Iran’s spiritual leader but also the highest authority in the land.
President Trump made Mr. Khalil the face of his crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests. Mr. Khalil is now living with uncertainty as the courts consider his deportation.
A week into Trump’s war in Iran, his strategy is still a mystery.
The Trump administration had signaled earlier this week that it was ready to abandon four executive orders seeking to punish law firms, but abruptly reversed course the next day.
In a wide-ranging career, he was a Boston lawyer, a Hollywood screenwriter and a Swiss currency trader.
The Florida bar said that it had “erroneously” made that assertion, disclosed in a letter last month, and that no investigation into Ms. Halligan was pending.
The anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, she became a symbol for abortion rights, though she later changed her views.
Mrs. Loving’s anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws.
An exhibit at the New York Historical sheds light on an organization that began by serving sailors, women and factory workers.
A panel of appeals judges ruled that a state law banning housing discrimination against renters who use federal vouchers was unconstitutional.
The actions of Ms. Halligan, who as a U.S. attorney brought criminal cases against President Trump’s enemies, are under review by the organization that licensed her to practice law.
Liberal justices accused their colleagues of expanding use of the emergency docket again in two orders issued this week.
Prosecutors called more than 30 witnesses, including 11 women who said the three men had sexually abused them. The brothers, who have pleaded not guilty, face life in prison if convicted.
After repeated but cryptic rebukes from the justices, Judge Brian Murphy last week again ruled against one of the administration’s signature immigration programs.
Giving in to bullies has its own costs, not least because bullies are never satisfied with just a single capitulation.
In “Chosen Land,” Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.
The administration has no control over the disciplinary authorities of state bar associations, but a new proposal would let the attorney general ask them to suspend proceedings involving department lawyers.
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.