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Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge.
The federal courts are dominated by Republicans, so the appeals process could be rough.
No one knows if Donald Trump can be prosecuted for the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
A notoriously partisan judge has launched a new attack on one of Obamacare’s key provisions.
In an uncharacteristic move, Justice Neil Gorsuch offers a trenchant warning about giving too much power to judges.
Republicans just got a painful reminder that political stunts can backfire.
A case about a silly, poop-themed dog toy is also a case about free speech and judicial humility.
And it arrives at the Supreme Court at an absolutely horrible time.
Doctors in red states across the country are too scared to perform legal abortions. A Texas lawsuit seeks to fix that in the biggest red state.
DeSantis wants to destroy a fundament of American free speech law.
Moore v. Harper endangers elections in the United States. Now it seems likely to disappear.
The most important question in US law is which political party controls the Supreme Court.
That’s actually good news.
Ordinarily, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court. But you never can tell with Trump’s judges.
The pillar of internet free speech seems to be everyone’s target.
This is what happens when important laws make no sense.
How a landmark Supreme Court decision was shaped by the racist idea that poor children can’t learn.
The justices probably won’t shut down major websites like Google, Twitter, or YouTube.
What if the Biden administration simply ignored court orders from the most partisan Republican judges?
Arizona v. Mayorkas shows how the Court’s Republican majority can manipulate its own procedures for partisan ends.
Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh seek to conscript big tech into the war on terror; the results could be disastrous.
The Justice Department hopes to neutralize Trump’s worst judge.
The law is very explicit that Biden’s student debt relief program is lawful. The Court’s Republican majority is unlikely to care.
A Democratic federal judge suggests that banning abortion violates the 13th Amendment’s prohibition on “involuntary servitude.”
We’re starting to see the fallout from the Supreme Court’s most recent Second Amendment decision.
The longtime opponent of free speech adds the Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the list of constitutional rights he wants to abridge.
An unhinged case brought by anti-vaxxers will be heard by one of the biggest reactionaries in the federal judiciary.
We are only beginning to see the legal fallout from the Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.
The fight over whether religious conservatives enjoy special rights is coming to a workplace near you.
The Florida governor (and likely presidential candidate) appears to believe that government exists to advance his ideas — and to suppress dissent.
The Supreme Court must resolve a terrifying legal fight over whether rifles with “bump stocks” are legal.
Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters should be a straightforward case. But nothing is ever straightforward in this Supreme Court.
The explosive political fight over Hector LaSalle, the nominee to be New York’s top judge, explained.
Arizona v. Mayorkas, the Court’s new Title 42 decision, appears to be the latest act of gamesmanship by a Republican Supreme Court.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is where law goes to die.
The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution. Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions.
The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Crawford v. Cain is a monument to judicial lawlessness.
A rule governing federal courts in Texas turned a former lawyer for the religious right into one of the most powerful people in the United States.
In retrospect, it was inevitable that this particular judge would come for contraception.
Moore v. Harper, one of the scariest election cases in the Supreme Court’s modern history, probably won’t end in catastrophe.