Lawyers are used to negotiating artful resolutions of high-stakes legal disputes. Trump is used to his adversaries’ ...

California’s February 2025 bar exam was, in technical terms, a hot-ass mess. Nearly 60 percent of post-exam survey respondents reported that the exam software froze, crashed, or otherwise became ...

David Souter, whom President George H.W. Bush appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990, and who spent the remainder of his 19-year tenure making conservatives insane with rage, died at his home in New ...

Since Trump won reelection in November, only 18 judges have created new vacancies for him to fill. The vast majority—16 of 18—have been district judges, and13 of those 16 were appointed by Republican ...

The federal government and conservative news outlets are conducting a smear campaign against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration kidnapped and imprisoned in El Salvador, ...

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court will answer a question that feels like it should not be difficult: whether the Constitution gives parents a de facto veto over any aspect of public education ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned opinion requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland man whom immigration ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case arising from religious conservatives’ hostility to a Maryland school district’s inclusion of a handful of books with ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident whom the Trump administration has held in immigration custody for five weeks and counting, has not been accused of any crime. The government’s only ...