Mayor Eric Adams praised Randy Mastro’s “impressive” career as he moves to hire him as New York City’s top lawyer. A majority of the Council opposes his nomination.
The measure, largely restating existing law, shows the prime minister’s skill at reassuring her right-wing base without sacrificing her increasingly mainstream image.
It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up. But it’s still a highly flawed case.
Britain’s Parliament passed contentious legislation to allow the deportation of asylum seekers to the African country, a political victory for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Readers praise the House speaker over the passage of the aid bill. Also: A juror’s duty; banning guns; poverty and health; anxious parents and kids.
A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad implications for homelessness policy throughout the country.
En tiempos de confusión y batallas legales sobre el acceso al aborto en Estados Unidos, las mujeres comparten sus experiencias en las redes sociales.
The ad portrays a woman trying to leave the state to have an abortion. The Campaign for Democracy, a political action committee started by Mr. Newsom, the California governor, created it.
A ban on camping in public places faces a Supreme Court test.
The first woman on the faculty of Yale Law School, she was named to the State Supreme Court in 1978 and became its first female chief justice six years later.
Here’s how America should build on the end of Roe v. Wade
He represented James Earl Ray and the King family in efforts to prove that Dr. King was the victim of a conspiracy, becoming a celebrity among the conspiracy-minded.
Don Tamaki was integral to getting redress for Japanese Americans. He says serving on a California task force transformed his view on racism in America.
A former Supreme Court justice on how to disagree.
The officer, Jatonya Muldrow, said she had been transferred to a less desirable position based on her sex. Lower courts ruled that she had failed to show concrete harm.
At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.
The State Senate introduced a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban dating back to the Civil War, while the House blocked an effort to do so.
Mayor Eric Adams, who is facing a cluster of legal challenges, is moving to hire Randy Mastro, known for his aggressive tactics.
Responses to a front-page story about an aging doctor. Also: Donald Trump’s snooze in court; women vs. Trump; free speech’s limits; the gun show
The federal courts and the Arizona Supreme Court have conjured a past that rejects the right to bodily autonomy.
Liberal activists are proposing a ballot measure that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state Constitution. Republicans in the State Legislature are considering plans to undermine it.
She got her training as a young lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, but once she became a commissioner, she accused colleagues of arrogance and insularity.
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office didn’t mean to send opposing lawyers an unredacted file about Louis Scarcella, a former N.Y.P.D. detective whose overturned cases have cost New York millions.
Mary Moriarty, a former chief public defender, became the top prosecutor in Minneapolis, promising an overhaul. Now she faces criticism, including from fellow Democrats.
The income-driven plan known as SAVE has reduced payments for millions of borrowers. Lawsuits by Republican-led states are seeking to upend it.
Some, like Marcia Clark and Mark Fuhrman, gained fame in other arenas. Others lived quieter lives.
The Senate candidate and Donald Trump ally is supporting a handful of state Republicans who have backed away from a near-total ban that was upheld by the State Supreme Court this week.
There is no longer a truly pro-life party in the United States.
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, whose term ends in July 2025, said she will not seek re-election. The race to replace her will decide whether the court has a liberal or conservative majority.
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spent five years in a London prison while contesting extradition efforts. Before that, he holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy.
Arizona’s former governor, Doug Ducey, expanded the court to seven justices. All solid conservatives, they upheld a 160-year-old abortion ban that presents a political risk to Republicans.
The WikiLeaks founder has been held in London as he has battled extradition to the United States on charges related to his publication of classified documents.
Democrats in both houses of the Legislature were blocked from advancing bills to roll back the reinstated ban on nearly all abortions in the state.
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell don’t think the federal judiciary is doing enough, and each is introducing a bill to address the issue.
The state’s Supreme Court ruled that the 1864 law is enforceable today. Here is what led to its enactment.
Tensions had been brewing for years inside Clare Locke, a top defamation law firm. Then came the biggest defamation case of them all.
Abortion opponents are entirely misaligned with the Trumpist form of conservatism.
The state’s highest court upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. Here’s what to know about the ruling.
President Biden, who promised to continue to fight for the restoration of Roe v. Wade, said the ban was first enacted “well before women had secured the right to vote.”
The state’s highest court said the law, moribund for decades under Roe v. Wade, was now enforceable, but it put its decision on hold for a lower court to hear other challenges to the law.
He landed a major blow against legal abortion during his first term. If given a second, he will land another.
Will the court’s conservatives flinch in the face of two polarizing gun cases?
With his video statement on Monday, Donald Trump laid bare how faulty a messenger he had always been for the anti-abortion cause.
Dionisio Figueroa used his position in Manhattan federal court to steer defendants to Telesforo Del Valle Jr. in a long-running conspiracy, prosecutors said.
Though the Florida Supreme Court allowed a ballot question on expanding abortion rights, it also laid out a way for anti-abortion groups to challenge such an expansion.
A Brooklyn hospital is trying to evict employees and retirees from staff housing, as it struggles financially, but tenants fear they will now be homeless in an unaffordable city.
The former president said he supported leaving abortion decisions to states, but political opponents say he bears responsibility for any curbs enacted.
A policy meant to prevent plaintiffs from steering their cases to sympathetic judges has drawn widespread attention, with both Republicans and Democrats accusing each other of politicizing the judiciary.
Adeel Mangi would be the first Muslim American to be a federal appeals court judge, but has faced vitriolic attacks from the G.O.P. The president could run out of time to fill the seat.
Why Is Adeel Mangi’s confirmation still in jeopardy?
Todd Blanche was a prosecutor and worked for a prestigious firm. Now, he is the principal lawyer for Donald Trump as he becomes the first former president to face prosecution.
If justices who disagree so profoundly can do so respectfully, perhaps it is possible for our politically divided country to do the same.
The law, which includes the death penalty as a punishment in some cases, has been strongly condemned, including by the United States.
The push for a quick decision on one of the former president’s most far-fetched claims is an unusual and risky move in a case Judge Aileen Cannon has allowed to become bogged down.
El tribunal del estado dictaminó que la protección de la privacidad prevista en la Constitución estatal no se extiende al procedimiento. Pero también permitió una consulta en las urnas sobre el acceso al aborto.
The Florida Supreme Court overturned decades of legal precedent in ruling that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion, effectively allowing Florida to ban the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.
The Florida Supreme Court found that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion. But it also allowed a ballot question on whether to expand abortion access.
The Florida Supreme Court allowed voters to decide this fall whether to expand abortion access, ruling 4 to 3 that a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion “before viability,” usually around 24 weeks, could go...
Michael J. Gottlieb is part of a cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, against a tide of political disinformation.
Since leaving office in 2021, former President Donald Trump has spent more than $100 million on costs related to investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials. Shane Goldmacher, a politics reporter for The New York Times, explains whe...
It’s actually traditionalist. Which is a good thing.
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.
The decision in favor of the federal government left in place a trial court injunction while courts determine whether the measure is legal.
Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, “Reading the Constitution,” so exasperating?
Readers discuss the First Amendment and efforts to monitor content on social media. Also: Senator Ted Cruz; talking about cancer; landlines; internet access.
Erin Hawley, a law professor and wife of Senator Josh Hawley, is arguing the Supreme Court case.
Two cases offer the Supreme Court an opportunity to shape the landscape of abortion access in the post-Roe era.
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.