A group of Republican AGs asserted an unsettling right to pregnant teens in a new filing in their ongoing mifepristone ...
Clinical legal education is supposed to serve the public interest. In Ames v. Ohio DYS, it’s pushing the conservative policy agenda instead.
Each year, of the thousands of petitions for review that the Supreme Court receives, the justices typically grant fewer than 100. For just about everyone else, a decision made by one of the 13 federal ...
Richard Glossip has been served a last meal three times, coming perilously close to execution for a crime he almost certainly did not commit. And one-third of the justices on the Supreme Court are ...
Who is President Biden nominating to the bench? How many judicial vacancies are there? Who controls federal courts of appeals? Read on to find out.
There are currently 39 federal judicial vacancies without a nominee. Of these, 35 are district court judgeships where Republican senators can veto a nominee under the blue slip policy observed by the ...
Over the past decade, San Francisco has dumped billions of gallons of shit into creeks, the San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. I say this entirely literally and without hyperbole: Every year, ...
Last year, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond did something prosecutors rarely do: He admitted a prosecutor’s office was wrong. Faced with abundant evidence that Oklahoma had sentenced Richard ...
Ala’a Hamayel is a Palestinian national who has lived in the United States for nearly twenty years. His wife of over a decade, Amina Bouarfa, is a U.S. citizen, as are their three young children. But ...
This article was published in partnership with Slate. During their summer vacations, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch did what all Supreme Court justices do every few years when the Court is in ...
The pernicious myth that Chief Justice John Roberts is a moderate conservative may finally be put to rest. Over the weekend, the Times reported that behind the scenes, Roberts quickly took hardline ...