Bombing Iran without congressional authorization escalated a bipartisan trend of presidents bypassing the original intent of the Constitution.
Hugo Aguilar Ortiz grew up in a remote Mixtec-speaking village. He is now one of the most powerful lawyers in Mexico.
The order to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from criminal custody as he awaits trial was a rebuke to the Trump administration. But he is likely to remain in immigration custody.
Hugo Aguilar Ortiz se ha convertido en una de las figuras indígenas más visibles de México y en un símbolo de la reestructuración del poder judicial impulsada por el partido gobernante en el país.
The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.
The Trump administration remains committed to deporting Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and leading figure in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
The court unanimously ruled that the state cannot require schools and universities to display the Commandments.
In an unusual request, two toy manufacturers had asked the court to greatly expedite their case.
She channeled her experiences — and frustrations — as a Los Angeles prosecutor into an award-winning career as a television writer and producer.
Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and legal permanent resident, has been held in Louisiana for over three months. The judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-Palestinian speech.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
The era of corporate allyship with the L.G.B.T. community is over. Maybe that’s a good thing.
A panel rejected a lower-court’s finding that it was likely illegal for President Trump to use state troops to protect immigration agents from protests.
The retrenchment on transgender rights is fueled by fear: fear of the future, fear of unfamiliar concepts, fear of not knowing one’s child.
The decision to uphold the Tennessee law will most likely mean a patchwork of laws throughout the country, a map that traces current political polarization.
Judge William G. Young’s long career has been punctuated by high-profile cases and outspoken advocacy for the judiciary’s value and fact-finding power.
Sarah Stogner had never tried a criminal case before getting elected D.A. in an oil-rich area half the size of New Jersey. So far, it’s been a struggle.
A federal judge held the attorney general, James Uthmeier, in civil contempt of court for violating an order blocking part of an immigration enforcement law.
A three-judge panel will determine whether National Guard troops can remain under President Trump’s command in Los Angeles as protests against immigration raids continue.
A lawsuit by the lawyers group seeks to stop the president’s efforts to punish law firms.
The question for the justices is whether the centers may pursue a First Amendment challenge to a state subpoena seeking donor information in federal court.
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about the Democratic Party. Also: A litmus test for federal workers; principled Republicans.
La baja participación y el temor a un retroceso democrático marcaron la transición de México a la elección de jueces y magistrados, lo que abre el camino para que el partido Morena domine los tribunales.
Low turnout and fears over democratic backsliding marked Mexico’s shift to electing judges, which opens the way for the Morena party to dominate courts.
President Trump appointed her to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But soon after arriving at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.
Denying the Justice Department’s request to detain the deportee would be a significant rebuke of the Trump administration, which has repeatedly cast him as a dangerous criminal.
The departures are the latest fallout for firms that cut deals with President Trump to avoid executive orders.
Disability rights groups had followed the case closely, warning that arguments by the school district could threaten broader protections for people with disabilities.
The request came as lawyers in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s separate civil case were poised to ask a different judge to hold the Trump administration in contempt for sidestepping one of her orders.
There’s a lot of work for lawyers in the nation’s capital these days: Over 400 lawsuits have been filed against President Trump’s administration since the start of his second term.
The filing by the Justice Department came ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Federal District Court.
The president’s lawyers argued that a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity justified moving an appeal of his conviction in Manhattan to U.S. jurisdiction.
Lori Zeno, who helped start the Queens Defenders, and her husband were accused of taking money from the organization for luxury vacations and a penthouse apartment.
“Ni siquiera he oído hablar de una protesta” en el acto del sábado en Washington para celebrar al ejército, dijo, pero “se trata de gente que odia a nuestro país”.
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
The emergency request came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
“I haven’t even heard about a protest,” at the Saturday event in Washington celebrating the Army, he said, but “this is people that hate our country.”
The Trump administration, reversing a Biden-era policy, had said it would return thousands of confiscated devices that allow rapid firing, even in states where they are banned.
Originalism is not just a unifying philosophy.
A nurse practitioner spoke on the phone with patients in states with abortion bans, assessed their medical eligibility and sent pills. She took some unconventional steps to protect their privacy.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers accused the Trump administration of spending months “engaged in an elaborate, all-of-government effort to defy court orders.”
America isn’t ready for what could happen to health care.
With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team’s approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it.
A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the American Revolution.
By a 2-to-1 vote, a three-judge panel found that the president can bar the news outlet from small settings such as the Oval Office or Air Force One, reversing at least for now a lower court’s ruling.
As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court.
The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee said Vice President JD Vance had set a precedent for derailing U.S. attorney candidates during his time in the Senate.
A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.
He struggled to become the first Chinese American person to practice law in the U.S., then used his training to fight for other Chinese Americans.
Damian Williams joined Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in January shortly after stepping down as one of the nation’s top federal prosecutors. He is taking a job with Jenner & Block.
America doesn’t need its air traffic controllers to agree with the president.
A Trump executive order is undermining the International Criminal Court’s work to pursue justice for crimes against humanity.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court had ruled that the group’s activities in serving the state’s poor were not religious enough to qualify for the exemption.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland urged the defense secretary to come to Congress for approval of the jet President Trump wants to use as Air Force One.
An internal Justice Department clash over safety and free speech rights centered on vandalism directed at Columbia University’s interim president.
Readers respond to a guest essay about women who dine alone. Also: A lawyer writes about a fundamental right codified in the Fifth Amendment.
Courts would be hard-pressed to explain why arguments that were fatal to the Biden administration’s overreach do not apply to Trump’s tariffs.
Gerard Comeau fought back after being fined for bringing too much beer into his province. He lost the battle, but may yet win the war.
La baja participación evidencia la confusión e indecisión existentes en todo el país en torno a la elección, que cambia el sistema judicial basado en nombramientos por otro en el que los votantes eligen a los jueces.
Nearly 90 percent of voters did not cast ballots on Sunday, one of the lowest turnouts in any federal election since Mexico became a democracy.
The case from Maryland was the court’s latest opportunity to apply its recently announced history-based test for assessing the constitutionality of gun control laws.
A coalition including leading figures on the right said the president’s program did violence to the Constitution. One judge cited it eight times.
U.S. institutions are still largely functioning. But the deterioration of the country’s political culture is striking — and alarming.
Los mexicanos eligieron el domingo a los nueve miembros de la Suprema Corte, junto con más de 2600 jueces y magistrados.
Voters were choosing the nine members of the Supreme Court on Sunday, along with more than 2,600 other judges and magistrates.
The president is very unhappy with the federal judiciary and the Federalist Society.
Las elecciones judiciales del domingo podrían eliminar un importante contrapeso a los líderes electos poderosos.
In a judicial overhaul, Mexican voters are directly electing their judges for the first time in history. But long and complex ballots await.
Sunday’s judicial elections could remove an important counterweight to powerful elected leaders.
On June 1, Mexico will become the only country in the world to elect all of its judges and magistrates. Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, a New York Times reporter based in Mexico City, breaks down why this new approach is so controversial.
A super PAC supporting Mr. Cuomo has raised $10 million from business leaders and special interest groups that could benefit from his victory.
Here’s what to know about Poland’s presidential runoff, which sets up a showdown between the governing party and resurgent nationalists.
This week’s ruling blocking many of the president’s tariffs will not lift those on Canadian cars, steel and aluminum. A trade expert explains what’s next.
La votación para actualizar el poder judicial del país podría dar lugar a un sistema comprometido con el partido gobernante, Morena.
The election to overhaul Mexico’s courts could result in a justice system more beholden to the nation’s dominant party, Morena.
It was an opening salvo in what is likely to be the decisive legal battle over the president’s attempts to employ the rarely used wartime law as a centerpiece of his aggressive deportation agenda.
The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed.
Por primera vez, México elegirá jueces y magistrados en todo el país. Las restricciones para hacer campaña llevaron a muchos candidatos a utilizar las redes sociales, a veces de forma controversial.
For the first time, Mexico will elect judges nationwide, from the highest to the lowest courts. Campaign restrictions pushed many candidates to campaign on social media, sometimes in divisive ways.
The administration had asked the court to allow it to end deportation protections for more than 500,000 people facing dire humanitarian crises in their home countries.
A federal court ruled that President Trump’s tariffs were illegal. We speak to the lead plaintiff.
White House reactions to unfavorable court rulings appeared designed to undermine confidence in the judiciary.
The judge ruled that the trooper was shielded from charges under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution because he was working on a federal task force.
A federal judge said she would issue a temporary order that would prevent the Trump administration from blocking the school’s ability to enroll international students.
The complaint argues that orders aimed at increasing American fossil fuel production infringe on the fundamental rights of young people.
The administration immediately petitioned a court to allow the United States to continue imposing stiff tariffs.
Personas señaladas de conexiones con cárteles y de delitos graves figuran en las boletas de las primeras elecciones judiciales que se celebran en México este domingo, lo que aviva el temor a que el crimen organizado pueda ejercer su influencia en la votación.
Por primera vez, los mexicanos votarán por miles de candidatos para ocupar 2600 cargos en tribunales locales, estatales y federales.
People accused of cartel connections and serious crime are on the ballot in Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections on Sunday, fueling fears that organized crime could exert its influence in the vote.
For the first time, Mexicans will vote for thousands of candidates to fill more than 2,600 positions in federal, state and local courts.
A federal judge in Massachusetts had ordered officials to “facilitate” his return. The United States is still holding a group of other deportees at a base in Djibouti.
The U.S. Court of International Trade said the president had overstepped his authority in imposing his “reciprocal” tariffs globally, as well as levies on Canada and Mexico.
The ruling helps undercut a new amendment to the State Constitution that ensures abortion rights.
Prosecutors said the former lawyer, Gregory J. Moore, 51, had also sought to avoid court dates by feigning illnesses, getting into a car crash and calling in bomb threats.
The president tapped his former defense lawyer to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
The judge ordered ICE to release Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, who also faces criminal charges.
Data gathered by the law enforcement agency responsible for judicial security showed 162 judges faced threats between March 1 and April 14.
Government lawyers said a federal judge in Boston had overstepped his authority by requiring hearings before deportations to countries other than the migrants’ own.
The judge concluded that the firm was targeted over its association with Robert S. Mueller III, and that the order “must be struck down in its entirety.”
The ruling effectively keeps the New York City tolling program, the first of its kind in the United States, running through June 9. President Trump has long vowed to kill the program.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington by NPR and other public radio organizations, said President Trump’s executive order violated the Constitution and the First Amendment.
A grand jury in Louisiana indicted a New York doctor for sending abortion pills to a Louisiana resident.
The Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility for plunging the legal world into chaos.
Veterans, in particular, are seeking free legal work from firms that cut deals with the White House like Skadden, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Weiss.
“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.