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 ...

A five-justice majority of the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that candidates for federal office have a right to challenge election rules in federal court, simply by virtue of being candidates.

In October 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bostock v. Clayton County, a case about whether a federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination based on “sex” extends to ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ, a pair of cases about state laws that prohibit transgender women and girls from playing school sports on ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has historically been among the nation’s most conservative federal appeals courts. This is particularly true where abortion is concerned: Well before President ...

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is fed up with her job. “I live in frustration,” Sotomayor told the audience at a lecture at Berkeley Law on Monday—possibly the most relatable thing a Supreme Court Justice ...

At first, school officials allowed parents to opt their children out of lessons involving these books. But after this proved to be a logistical nightmare in Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...

The federal judiciary is out of control. Far-right judges have decided they are above the law, using their lifetime positions not to advance the well-being of the country, but to increase their ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...