US Federal Courts
News & analysis of decisions from America’s lower courts.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
SBF vs. Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, Allen Stanford, and Jeffrey Skilling.
Does Apple have a monopoly on smartphones? The Justice Department thinks so.
The Supreme Court’s center right appears increasingly frustrated with the judiciary’s far right.
The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges.
The Trumpiest court in America just tried to neutralize a federal law requiring most hospitals to provide medically necessary abortions.
The justices will decide whether to ban mifepristone, a drug used in half of US abortions.
SEC v. Jarkesy is still likely to end in a 6-3 decision against the federal government. But it probably won’t be a catastrophic loss.
Once again, the Supreme Court must deal with judicial arsonists on the Fifth Circuit.
The Supreme Court hears a civil rights case straight out of a right-wing fever dream.
America’s Trumpiest court handed down a shockingly dangerous decision. The Supreme Court is likely, but not certain, to fix it.
The high stakes of the latest DACA decision, explained.
Republicans are losing their fight to ban drag — at least for now.
This decision is radioactive, even by the very low standards of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Imagine a Breitbart comments forum come to life and given immense power over innocent people. That’s Judge James Ho.
The federal judiciary is a cesspool of partisanship, and now it’s being asked to oversee some of the most politically fraught criminal trials in American history.
Trump will finally stand trial for his attempt to destroy US democracy.
The fight over “ghost guns” arrives on the Court’s shadow docket.
Julie Rikelman, the abortion rights movement’s top Supreme Court litigator, will serve on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
If Cannon remains the judge on this case, it is unlikely that special counsel Jack Smith will convict Trump — no matter how strong the evidence may be.
Oath Keeper head Stewart Rhodes received the longest sentence of any insurrectionist yet.
Remember that guy who tried to ban mifepristone? He’s back.
Why is Texas so good at changing policy for the whole US?
There is a solution to America’s Matthew Kacsmaryk problem.
Of course pregnancy isn’t a disease.
Contradictory court orders put the abortion drug mifepristone in “uncharted territory.”
That’s actually good news.
Ordinarily, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court. But you never can tell with Trump’s judges.
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.
The Justice Department hopes to neutralize Trump’s worst judge.
No president in recent memory has done more to change the judiciary than Donald Trump.