Matt Ford

Both sides argued that the wrong ruling would have dire consequences for international relations. The justices left them guessing.

It’s not every day the Roberts court hands out labor rights, but a plaintiff may have found the one neat trick for winning it over: religious freedom claims.

Can a nation’s sovereign immunity extend to a foreign financial institution? One bank accused of fraud and money laundering sure hopes so.

Devotees of the legendary role-playing game could end up on the losing side of the next big intellectual property war.

A concrete manufacturer argues that it can sue a union over a strike that unintentionally results in property losses.

The White House’s commitment to filling vacancies on the bench got a big boost when Democrats lucked into an expanded Senate majority.

The story of a pathological liar who conned his way to Congress has provided some high comedy. But you won’t like it when the laughter stops.

While our reliance on capital punishment continues to decline, this has only served to illuminate its increasing cruelty—and the incompetence of its practitioners.

After years of unwarranted hype ballooned its value, the crypto market came crashing down in 2022, bankrupting billionaires and naïve investors alike. Has America learned its lesson?

The House committee made the case for multiple criminal charges against the former president. Now it’s up to the Department of Justice to prosecute him.

A pair of plaintiffs are seeking redress over gallingly abusive property seizures, but it’s not certain that the Supreme Court will intervene.

It’s by no means clear that the high court will ultimately spike the administration’s loan forgiveness plan, but it will have a range of opportunities.

Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission made a strong case for the latter on Tuesday.

The just-passed defense spending bill includes provisions designed to protect judges from violence. But legal journalists say these measures infringe on their rights.

The hot new electoral subversion idea brewed up by the conservative legal movement may be too extreme for some of the Supreme Court’s conservatives.

The high court’s conservatives could alter protections for LGBTQ citizens based on a case whose plaintiff describes an entirely hypothetical injury.

The Trump-appointed judge, who tried to do the former president a favor in the Mar-a-Lago affair, received a stern correction from the Eleventh Circuit.

Who gets the final say on deportations and enforcement, Washington or the states? The high court faces some nettlesome questions—and some intriguing divisions.

In a potentially significant case about parody and intellectual property, the high court may get the last laugh.

The majority’s arguments in last year’s big gun-control ruling has touched off some truly chaotic interpretations from lower courts.