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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told a group of lawyers and judges on Thursday that "the state of our democracy" ...
The Supreme Court’s concessions to President Trump have reignited complaints about the secrecy of shadow docket rulings.
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor torched the Supreme Court for siding with Trump on birthright citizenship—and putting every civil right under attack.
In an unsigned order with no explanation, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked lower-court orders that had stopped President Donald Trump from shuttering the Department of Education.
When the Supreme Court overturns rulings without offering any explanation, it is simply wielding raw power. And raw power ...
Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is,” is a cornerstone of the doctrine of judicial review, ...
A Nigerian official indicated in remarks to a Nigerian outlet that the country is not interested in helping to deport foreign nationals.
In dissenting opinions, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson excoriated the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling on ...
In a precedent-based legal system, you can’t know what the law is if you don’t have judicial opinions explaining why the courts have reached their conclusions.
Today’s edition of quick hits.* The more the climate crisis intensifies, the more we can expect weeks like these: “First the ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio began mass firings at the State Department on Monday, part of a reorganization plan to form a leaner foreign policy force that, he argues, will allow the United ...