There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
Her streak of Supreme Court victories, which began during the New Deal era, benefited millions of workers and continue to shape labor rights today.
The decision foreclosed one of the options that lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia had tried in an effort to keep him in the country.
She was among the last of a generation of activists and lawyers who weathered the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort in the decades that followed.
Authoritarians have lost elections before, and they will again.
The lawsuit was an effort to keep ‘And Tango Makes Three,’ about two male penguins raising a chick, in a county’s school libraries.
Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to pause their cases until funding resumes.
The justices deferred a decision on the president’s efforts to oust Ms. Cook and instead set oral arguments in the case for January.
The decision vacated a finding by a panel of the court’s judges regarding President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants, but did not clear the way for such expulsions to resume.
A federal judge said Sigal Chattah was not “validly serving as acting U.S. attorney.” The Trump administration had appointed her to the post in a way that circumvented federal procedures.
A coalition of blue states and Washington, D.C., accused the Trump administration of illegally “taking money from its enemies” in freezing emergency preparedness grants.
In a blistering opinion, a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration used the threat of deportations to systematically intimidate certain campus demonstrators into silence.
In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.
La financiación federal caducará esta semana si el Congreso no actúa. Se verán afectadas áreas de todo el gobierno.
A judge, Zia M. Faruqui, said that what appeared to be a kind of grand jury forum shopping seemed to have broken “decades-long norms and the rule of law.”
Federal funding will lapse this week if Congress does not act. Areas across the government will be affected.
The organization, Demand Justice, will use its megaphone to call on lawmakers to “demonstrate steadfast opposition to the dismantling and corruption of our legal system, courts and the rule of law.”
His temperate approach was in sharp contrast to his more combative predecessor, but he continued to pursue corrupt unions and financiers.
The documentarian reflects on the ideas that drove our nation’s founding — and how they echo today.
President Trump’s retribution campaign risks ushering in a cycle of retaliation in which each new administration takes aim at the last one.
Los abogados del gobierno pidieron a los jueces que despejaran el camino para la orden ejecutiva del presidente que pone fin a la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento.
His client was 6 years old when her father savagely beat her during a visitation. Her mother had warned police that he was dangerous, but they ignored her.
After pioneering the study of Chinese law in America, he was among the first foreigners to practice commercial law in China, and spoke out about human rights.
Government lawyers asked the justices to clear the way for the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
A powerhouse Washington lawyer, he negotiated blockbuster contracts for A-list clients, including the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bushes, while often acting as their consigliere.
Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee, previously handled the 2019 arraignment of two associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani, among other high-profile cases.
Readers discuss President Trump’s attacks on free speech. Also: Pentagon secrecy; a call to ex-presidents; medical advice from the president; mandatory friendliness.
The two-page indictment of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, offered little indication of the evidence that would be presented at a trial. Some legal experts called it flimsy and dangerous.
A prosecutor’s drive to indict James Comey trampled over the Justice Department’s long tradition of keeping a distance from politics and the White House, and raised the prospect of more arbitrary charges.
In a scene caught on video, the woman and a young girl were clinging to a man who was being detained. Agents pulled their hair, then one shoved the woman after she touched his chest.
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The indictment came amid extraordinary pressure from President Trump on prosecutors to pursue the case as retribution against Mr. Comey, a longtime antagonist.
The lack of an indictment so far against Mr. Brennan, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, is the most recent setback for such prosecutions.
The judge ruled that President Trump had clearly violated the law, but that the impact did not rise to an “irreparable harm” that would justify her intervention.
They echoed the president’s characterization of Mr. Mangione, even though the judge had warned of endangering a fair trial.
In letters to the firms, the lawmakers suggested “that the administration’s coercion of your law firm may be ongoing and escalating.”
Trump dreams of infinite presidential power.
A future senator from New York marked changes on the document, which Christie’s plans to sell at auction early next year.
The ruling is a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of millions of research grants to the California university.
The justices said they will consider whether to overrule a landmark Supreme Court precedent that has limited the president’s ability to fire top officials at the agency.
Jimmy Kimmel’s removal looks more like a red scare than a culture clash.
A new policy for the National Endowment for the Arts to review grant applications to see if they comply with President Trump’s “gender ideology” order violates the Constitution, the court said.
The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.
Readers respond to ABC’s action pulling Mr. Kimmel’s late-night show off the air.
Los funcionarios del gobierno de Trump han hablado mucho de castigar ciertos tipos de mensaje. Esto es lo que dice la ley.
President Trump had pressed to fire Lisa Cook before the central bank’s meeting, at which the Fed voted to cut interest rates.
The ruling was just the latest misfortune to befall the former New York City mayor. He has been indicted and disbarred, filed for bankruptcy and suffered a fractured vertebra in a car crash.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said he was intervening to protect migrants from being detained in potentially “unconstitutional and inhumane” circumstances at 26 Federal Plaza.
There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says.
His first term focused on America’s rival superpowers. Now the emphasis is on homeland defense and troops on city streets.
Start with a constitutional convention.
Prosecutors announced on Tuesday several charges against the 22-year-old man that they accused of fatally shooting the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, including aggravated murder.
The judiciary’s leadership met in Washington, emphasized their budgetary needs and said that threats against judges remained a problem.
A report filed to Congress on Tuesday alleges the Trump administration concealed data showing that dozens of children it sought to deport faced serious harm back in Guatemala.
The attorney general also said she could investigate businesses that refused to print Charlie Kirk vigil posters as the Trump administration pushes to punish anyone who celebrated his killing.
A court blocked a last-minute attempt on Monday to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed board ahead of a meeting to set interest rates.
Plus, a “sci-fi” discovery about ants.
In a new series, David Leonhardt asks leading thinkers and politicians: What’s next.
Voters will decide whether three Democratic State Supreme Court justices will keep their seats in a swing state that will be crucial to the next presidential election.
The decision came the day before the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting at which policymakers are expected to cut interest rates.
The Justice Department gave no reason for its dismissal of Maurene Comey, a longtime federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of the former F.B.I. director, James Comey.
In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.
Trump has forged ahead with his attempts to fire Lisa Cook even as new documents call his claims of mortgage fraud into question.
The second Trump administration has filed roughly the same number of applications so far as the Biden administration did over four years. But they have fared quite differently.
In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
The Senate looks poised to confirm President Trump’s pick to join the central bank in time for the policy meeting next week, while another governor’s fate remains up in the air.
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.
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.