When Lindsay Hecox graduated from high school in 2019, she came out as transgender. A few months later, she started medically prescribed hormone replacement treatment—taking estrogen and suppressing ...

On January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump told a throng of furious supporters gathered at the Ellipse that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen,” and that unless they were willing to “fight ...

On New Year’s Eve, Chief Justice John Roberts published the 2025 year-end report on the federal judiciary. For nearly 50 years, these annual reports consisted of the chief justice’s reflections on the ...

Link to: The Supreme Court Gave Fossil Fuels Companies an Early Christmas Present ...

Link to: The Supreme Court’s War on Government Is Just Getting Started NEPA, however, is different. NEPA, or the National Environmental Policy Act, was the first major federal environmental statute of ...

With the Senate adjourned until 2026, the book is closed on President Donald Trump’s first-year judicial appointments. How much damage did he do this time around? In my view, a lot—his 26 appointees ...

In October 2022, Milder Escobar-Temal’s wife called police in Nashville, Tennessee and alleged that he was abusing his 14-year-old stepdaughter. When police responded to the call and searched the home ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened for its final meeting on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominations before lawmakers head home for the holidays. Among the nominees who ...

When President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4 percent overall, and at 5.3 percent for Black workers. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Very bad things can happen to people in immigration court. The court can order people to be held indefinitely, as long as the government thinks it can find a country that will take them. The court can ...

After a disastrous showing in the November 2025 elections and under pressure from President Donald Trump, many Republican-controlled legislatures are looking to (further) gerrymander their states ...