Justin Smith, 41, was confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship after multiple Democrats missed the vote.

A lawyer for ICE instructed a DOJ attorney to withhold information from U.S. District Judge Melissa Dubose.

The Trump administration seems to think Dreamers have no legal status.

Judicial contempt is a tool few jurists have reached for to curb the administration’s misrule—and for good reason. But that may be about to change.

The conservative legal movement’s latest broadside against the judiciary is likely to fail, but it illuminates how far they’re willing to go to dismantle the rule of law.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined the president’s campaign to get the judge impeached. This is attempted dictatorship.

Calls are mounting for the liberal justice to take her leave. Instead, Democrats should focus on winning elections.

The Fifth Circuit’s well-documented judicial shenanigans have earned a surprising rebuke from the high court.

Clarence Thomas’s news-making scandals have senators eager to rein in the high court. At least one Republican has signed on to the effort.

The bad news is that the California senator is gumming up President Biden’s important work. The good news is that this is all very easily resolved!

A plan to save the high court from its own excesses—with bipartisan buy-in—is gathering steam. Here are the next steps to build on the unexpected momentum.

How much leeway will the Supreme Court give a president who wants to stonewall House Republican investigations? There’s only one way to find out.

Republicans did away with the arcane practice when it suited their purposes.

By backing the implementation of ethics reforms already practiced in the lower courts instead of more radical solutions, liberals can make a case with which conservatives might agree.

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

A recent spat between a judge and Yale Law School forces us to consider whether the federal judiciary should continue to be a spoils system for the well connected.

As more and more judges engineer their own end-of-career successions, the rule of law is starting to warp in dangerous and unsustainable ways.

There’s a simple formula for getting on the judicial bench in the MAGA era.