When the president-elect says he wants to revive “impoundments,” he’s really talking about a vast expansion of his autocratic vision.

Democrats should stop scapegoating the system for their shrunken popular clout, and instead make the hard strategic shifts necessary to win it back.

Here’s what we know about the major players jockeying to lead the linchpin organization of the conservative legal movement.

A massive lobbying push and a critical Supreme Court decision put the ability to wager our life savings in the palms of our hands. The gamble hasn’t paid off.

The Lone Star State’s legal attacks on gender-affirming care hold major consequences for 2025—and beyond.

The returning administration is full of free speech warriors—the kind that crush dissent and dissenters.

The high court appeared ready to deal a savage blow to the rights and livelihoods of a group that conservatives have spent the year targeting.

During Trump’s first term, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was a rare oasis of judicial sobriety. It will face an even sterner test the next time around.

After years of touting the need to preserve democracy and the rule of law, the outgoing president concludes his reign in the most cynical way imaginable.

Trump’s vengeance-minded administration will have no blunter instrument than a corrupted Department of Justice.

Too many jurisdictions continue to abide by wholly discredited forensic techniques and pseudoscientific nonsense, which are leaving legal mayhem in their wake.

The masterminds behind the proposed government efficiency agency have provided more detail about how it would function. Their explanations only makes their enterprise seem less plausible.

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.

The vanity agency the billionaire oligarch is getting from Trump probably won’t accomplish much beyond giving him and partner Vivek Ramaswamy more of what they desperately crave—attention.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just threw a major wrench into the effort to protect the planet—and teed up another chance for the Supreme Court to take a bite out of the administrative state.

In a long-running fight with Washington, the Beehive State’s top politicos have found a novel way to escalate the conflict with the Supreme Court.

Their interests are being litigated with deftness and aplomb, but more needs to be done outside the courtroom to start turning the tide.

Funding cuts have critical all-trimester facilities on the brink of collapse—and the ripple effects to public health could be profound.

Can the Aloha State defy the Roberts court on a controversial Second Amendment decision? They may soon find out.