The fastest way to lose your job as a Trump-adjacent lawyer is to acknowledge facts he doesn’t like to hear about.
Winston Hencely, an Army specialist stationed at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, was attending a Veterans Day 5K in 2016 when he saw Ahmad Nayeb walking towards a crowd of over 200 people gathered at ...
Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district ...
On Thursday, ProPublica published an explosive investigative report into the rise of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a right-wing crusader who believes God called ...
Just a few minutes into oral argument in Trump v. Colorado last month, it was apparent that the Supreme Court had no intention of enforcing the Disqualification Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...
On Thursday, Alabama executed Anthony Boyd, a 54-year-old Black man whom the state claims was involved in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of Gregory Huguley. Prosecutors had no physical evidence ...
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 ...
Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...
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 Friday, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Trump v. CASA, the case about President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to rescind the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of birthright ...
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A ...
In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...