One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to ...

Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about.

The simplest way to predict the outcome of any Supreme Court case is, “What is the result that would be most beneficial to ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made waves earlier this month when she used her perch to offer a vision of racial equality that stands at odds with how the Supreme Court often treats matters of race.

In 1946, Congress quietly passed a statute giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance” from the border. Shortly thereafter, ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

Nina Totenberg, the longtime NPR legal affairs correspondent, has a defiant message for her haters in her new book Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships. Despite persistent ...

On a precious few occasions, the Donald Trump White House was foiled by its own incompetence. For example, their cover-up of their inclusion of a citizenship question on the Census—a stunt aimed at ...

The Supreme Court’s newest member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, debuted at oral argument this week, and very quickly got under the skin of the conservative legal commentariat. Merrill v. Milligan is ...